US Patent Issued to Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance on April 22 for "Lid-spout assembly for a package and package having a lid-spout assembly" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,918, issued on April 22, was assigned to Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. (Pully, Switzerland).

"Lid-spout assembly for a package and package having a lid-spout assembly" was invented by Paolo Zanon (Modena, Italy), Anna Rosa Vietri (Modena, Italy) and Rocco De Paola (Modena, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is described lid-spout assembly for a package having a designated pour opening and being filled with a pourable product. The lid-spout assembly comprises at least a collar, a coupling ring arranged around a portion of the collar, a lid and a connecting element connecting the lid and the coupling ring with one another....