ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,566, issued on April 15, was assigned to Schoeller Allibert GmbH (Schwerin, Germany).
"Container with a screw cap" was invented by John Huizingh (Vlagtwedde, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container, preferably in the form of a bucket, includes a closure for closing the container. The closure includes a closed lid plate that is placeable on a container rim bounding a container opening in order to cover the container opening. A lock ring is placeable over the lid plate and screwable to the container. The lid plate is fixable to the container with the lock ring. A seal ring is arranged between the container rim and lid pla...