US Patent Issued to TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE on May 20 for "Lid assembly for a container, container having a lid assembly and method of coupling a lid assembly to a spout" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,702, issued on May 20, was assigned to TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A. (Pully, Switzerland).

"Lid assembly for a container, container having a lid assembly and method of coupling a lid assembly to a spout" was invented by Stefano Menozzi (Parma, Italy) and Paolo Zanon (Modena, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is described a lid assembly for a container having a spout. The lid assembly comprises at least a coupling ring configured to be arranged around at least a portion of the spout; a lid configured to selectively cover a pouring outlet of the spout; and a tethering element tethering the lid to the coupling ring. The l...