US Patent Issued to TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE on March 18 for "Lid-spout assembly for a package and package having a lid-spout assembly" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,311, issued on March 18, 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 Davide Morciano (Modena, Italy) and Paolo Zanon (Modena, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is described a lid-spout assembly for a package. The lid-spout assembly comprises at least a spout having a collar carrying a pouring outlet, a coupling ring arranged around a portion of the collar, a lid and a hinge element hinging the lid to the coupling ring. The lid is controllable between at least a closed configuration and an open configurati...