ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,958, issued on May 20, was assigned to Consumer Convenience Technologies LLC (Dayton, Ohio).

"Manufacturing tooling and methods for producing push button container closures" was invented by James Bach (Dayton, Ohio) and R. Peter Stodd (Vandalia, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tooling assembly and related method of manufacture for making a push button container closure are provided. Advantageously, the tooling assembly only includes one "all in one" press station at which all score lines are cut into the blank that is being formed into the container closure. Furthermore, the profiles and features of the container closure are ge...