US Patent Issued on July 22 for "Single line quick connector (SQC), a system comprising the single line quick connector and method of operating" (Norwegian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,132, issued on July 22.

"Single line quick connector (SQC), a system comprising the single line quick connector and method of operating" was invented by Jon Olav Schia (Notodden, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A single line quick connector includes an outer housing, a screw element, a collet sleeve having a plurality of collet fingers, and a fluid line insert. The fluid line insert is connectable to a fluid line and has a groove for a coupler. The outer housing, the screw element and the collet sleeve are arranged such that rotation of the screw element results in an axial movement of the outer housing relative the collet slee...