ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,717, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to LESAFFRE ET COMPAGNIE (Paris).
"Dispensing device" was invented by Adrien Gatti (Lille, France) and Yves Gosselin (Allouagne, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a manual pouring device or belonging, suitable for piercing and emptying a granular material contained in a vacuum-sealed package, including: a tubular body, having a duct for the flow of the material, extending from an inlet opening positioned at a first end of the tubular body to an outlet opening for the granular material, positioned at a second end of the tubular body; and a hollow piercing tool having a distal end e...