ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,563, issued on June 10, was assigned to Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. (Vevey, Switzerland).
"Anti-refill bottle cap" was invented by Ronghe Lou (Guangdong, China), Wenhui Xiao (Guangdong, China), Luke Zheng (Guangdong, China) and Xiangnan He (Guangdong, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A separate bottle cap comprising a bottle body connector (1), an outer cap (2), an anti-backflow assembly (3) and an inner cap (4), wherein the bottle body connector (1) is a hollow cylinder, a lower end thereof is fit and connected to a bottle body, the anti-backflow assembly (3) is provided between the bottle body connector (1) and the inner c...