ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,659, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to MICHAEL HORAUF MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH UND Co. KG (Donzdorf, Germany).

"Lid from paper, paperboard or paper-like material, and method for producing a lid" was invented by Jens Holger Unger (Esslingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lid from paper, paperboard or paper-like material for a container, wherein the lid is produced from an integral planar blank and has a lid plate and a lid collar. The lid collar proceeds from a periphery of the lid plate, and the lid collar is formed from at least two plies of the planar blank. A first ply of the lid collar, proceeding from the periphery of ...