ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,421, issued on July 1, was assigned to Syntegon Technology GmbH (Waiblingen, Germany).

"Closing apparatus for closing pharmaceutical containers" was invented by Tobias Berger (Crailsheim, Germany), Ulrich Krauss (Ilshofen, Germany) and Markus Ilgenfritz (Feuchtwangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a closing apparatus for closing pharmaceutical containers, having a closing tool for joining a closure element to a pharmaceutical container (68), having a fluid unit for applying at least one gaseous fluid to the container, the fluid unit having at least one filter (64, 66), wherein the closing apparatus ha...