US Patent Issued to Intellectual Capital Management on Dec. 2 for "Pull tab with improved accessibility and associated methods of manufacture" (Ohio, Montana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,072, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Intellectual Capital Management (Whitefish, Mont.).

"Pull tab with improved accessibility and associated methods of manufacture" was invented by Mitchell Everts (Whitefish, Mont.) and Andrew Hogenkamp (Minster, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pull tab for a container lid includes a nose configured to apply downward pressure on a frangible region of the container lid, a rivet receiving portion adjacent to the nose that includes a rivet aperture therethrough, a lift portion located distally from the nose, and a finger hole located in proximity to the lift portion. Side edges of the finger hol...