ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,314, issued on March 18, was assigned to Heineken Supply Chain B.V. (Amsterdam).
"Container and valve for a container" was invented by Arie Maarten Paauwe (Naaldwijk, Netherlands), Bart Jan Bax (Blaricum, Netherlands) and Harold Marcel Blom (Houten, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Valve, comprising a base element and a snap ring or snap fingers extending there from, positioned around an opening through the base element, wherein within the snap ring or between the snap fingers a valve housing is provided, having at least one inlet opening and a spring loaded valve body, biased towards the base element and closing off the o...