US Patent Issued to Physio-Control on Oct. 7 for "Peelable lid for container with multi-point peel system" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,046, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Physio-Control Inc. (Redmond, Wash.).

"Peelable lid for container with multi-point peel system" was invented by Ethan Albright (Mill Creek, Wash.), Ramesh Ammanath (Kirkland, Wash.) and Peter Wesley Bristol (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A peelable lid system includes a peelable lid, a seal configured to seal the peelable lid to a container, a handle coupled to the peelable lid, and a lifting mechanism coupled to handle. The lifting mechanism can be coupled to the peelable lid at a plurality of attachment points, including at least one attachment point coupled to the peelable lid away fr...