ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,988, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to DAIWA CAN COMPANY (Tokyo).
"Cap and method for manufacturing cap" was invented by Eiji Araki (Sagamihara, Japan), Kenji Takagi (Sagamihara, Japan) and Eiji Fujishige (Sagamihara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cap includes: a cap body including a top plate portion and a cylindrical skirt portion; a sealing member provided in the cap body separately from the cap body so as to face the top plate portion; a plurality of locking portions arranged in a circumferential direction in the skirt portion, the locking portions protruding inward in a radial direction of the skirt portion and suppo...