US Patent Issued to AKWEL SWEDEN on June 17 for "O-ring seal and fluid connection for a fluid transfer circuit comprising such a seal" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,834, issued on June 17, was assigned to AKWEL SWEDEN AB (Varberg, Sweden).

"O-ring seal and fluid connection for a fluid transfer circuit comprising such a seal" was invented by Jan Olofsson (Varberg, Sweden) and Cecilia Lofgren (Varberg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seal includes an undulating profile following a circumferential path centered on a main axis, such that the path has a variable axial amplitude relative to a reference transverse plane perpendicular to the main axis between two, lower and upper, transverse planes and defines a non-planar geometric profile of the seal. The undulating profile has at least two pe...