ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,273, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Threadless Closures Ltd. (Rutland, Great Britain).
"Container and a closure for a container" was invented by Anthony Henry Joseph Fraser (Ketton, Great Britain) and John Hein (Leeds, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container a side surface and a rim that defines an opening and an axis; a closure for the container; the container and closure having cooperating threads to move the closure axially as it is rotated; the closure having a seal against the side surface of the container; the thread portions of the container and closure are configured such that, as the closure rotates rela...