US Patent Issued to BERICAP HOLDING on May 6 for "Closure cap and container neck for preventing detachment of a tamperevident strip" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,376, issued on May 6, was assigned to BERICAP HOLDING GMBH (Budenheim, Germany).

"Closure cap and container neck for preventing detachment of a tamperevident strip" was invented by Gunter Krautkramer (Budenheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A closure cap having a lid portion and a cap skirt. The cap skirt includes an inner thread and defines a closure axis such that the closure cap can be screwed onto an outer thread of a container neck. A circumferential security band is arranged on an edge of the cap skirt facing away from the lid portion and connected to the cap skirt via multiple tearable bridges. At least one latching ...