ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,210, issued on July 29, was assigned to Origin Materials Operating Inc. (West Sacramento, Calif.) and PackSys Global AG (Ruti ZH, Switzerland).

"Device for folding of an edge portion of a closure cap" was invented by Jay Clarke Hanan (Glendora, Calif.), Rachel Egan Hess (Bethesda, Md.), Pascal Schaad (Bettlach, Switzerland), Paul Flukiger (Heimberg, Switzerland) and Julius Laubli (Jona, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for folding an edge portion (72) along a circumferential direction of a mantle of a closure cap (70) for a container, for forming a retaining ring on the closure cap (70), comprises a first transport...