ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,779, issued on July 8, was assigned to L'Oreal (Paris).
"Wiper device for a receptacle containing a product, notably a cosmetic product" was invented by Frederic Jollet (Clichy, France), Gilles Baudin (Clichy, France), Lycia Aoussat (Aulnay-sous-Bois, France) and Nicolas Duru (Clichy, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The wiper device designed to equip a receptacle containing a product, notably a cosmetic product, comprises a tubular body (12) and a wiper member (14) made as one piece with said tubular body. The wiper member (14) comprises at least one helical winding (28) coaxial with an axis of elongation X-X' of the tubular bod...