ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,196, issued on June 10, was assigned to GPI Systems AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Expansible plunger; an attachment unit and a method for attaching a container element in a container body" was invented by Per Hagelqvist (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radially expansible press plunger including a base plate and a first plunger skirt. A circumferential edge portion of the first plunger skirt is arranged at a guiding surface of the base plate and being arranged radially inward of the circumferential edge of the bottom surface. The first plunger skirt is resiliently transformable between an unexpanded state and a radially expanded ...