ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,600, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. (Pully, Switzerland).
"Screw cap, tool and method for screwing a cap onto a container" was invented by Hakan Berg (Tomelilla, Sweden) and Magnus Virgili (Malmo, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A screw cap is aligned using a loading piston by a method for aligning the screw cap and the loading piston in relation to each other, and after alignment a method for screwing a screw cap onto a threaded neck portion of a packaging container is performed. The screw cap includes a base portion having a top and a bottom surface, and an annular portion raised from t...