ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,956, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Coster Tecnologie Speciali S.p.A. (Calceranica Al Lago, Italy).

"Fluid substance dispensing device" was invented by Yuri Banovich (Lavarone, Italy), Alfeo Tecchiolli (Meano, Italy) and Leonardo Righi (Arco, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for dispensing a fluid substance, including a container in which the fluid substance is housed, the container being coupled with a valve or a manual pump equipped with a hollow stem which is movable between at least a first position, in which the fluid substance is dispensed through a cavity thereof and a second position in which dispensing of th...