ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,895, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SEIDEL GMBH & Co. KG (Marburg, Germany).

"Closing cap arrangement" was invented by Silke Jesberg (Wetter, Germany), Andreas Ritzenhoff (Marburg, Germany), Michael Kurz (Neustadt-Speckswinkel, Germany) and Tobias Huehn (Marburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a closing cap arrangement (80) for being disposed on an outlet opening of a vessel realised as a pot or a bottle, the closing cap arrangement having a multipart design, the closing cap arrangement comprising an enveloping cap (81) and an inner cap (82) provided with a connective element for detachably connecti...