ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,566, issued on June 10, was assigned to Metrohm AG (Herisau, Switzerland) and Sigma-Aldrich Chemie GmbH (Buchs, Switzerland).
"Closure for a container" was invented by Bjorn Christensen (Speicherschwendi, Switzerland), Fabian Wahl (St. Gallen, Switzerland), Michael Weber (St. Gallen, Switzerland), Samuel Schindler (Zurich, Switzerland) and Lukas Wilhelm (Zurich, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A closure (1) for a container comprising a connecting element (2) for connection of the closure to a container, a sealing device (3) for sealing the access to a container content and an interface (4) to an adapter having a coupling r...