ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,842, issued on June 17, was assigned to Niagara Bottling LLC (Diamond Bar, Calif.).
"Tamper evidence container closure" was invented by Jay Clarke Hanan (Glendora, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container closure and methods are disclosed for providing visible evidence of removal of the closure from a container after installation by a manufacturer. The closure includes tamper evidence bridges comprising small tabs of material that extend from a bottom-most edge of the closure to a tamper evidence ledge of the container. The bridges break when the closure is rotated relative to the tamper evidence ledge, thereby providing readi...