ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,415, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Seidel GmbH & Co. KG (Marburg, Germany).

"Cosmetic containers, in particular a mascara container" was invented by Silke Jesberg (Wetter, Germany), Andreas Ritzenhoff (Marburg, Germany) and Michael Kurz (Neustadt-Speckswinkel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a cosmetics container, in particular a mascara container (400), whose components are a container part (401), a container cap (402), a wiper, which is inserted into a container neck disposed on a container part, and an applicator (403), which is connected to the container cap and passes through the wiper with a...