US Patent Issued to Aquamarine AS on Dec. 23 for "Clamp and a method of clamping a pair of flanges" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,103, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Aquamarine AS (Jorpeland, Norway).

"Clamp and a method of clamping a pair of flanges" was invented by Hakon Aslaksen (Tau, Norway), Ole Bokn (Jorpeland, Norway), Vegard Oftedal (Jorpeland, Norway) and Helge Skjellevik (Jorpeland, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ring-shaped clamp and a method of using same, wherein the ring-shaped clamp is arranged to encircle and hold together a pair of mating flanges of two inter-connectable elements, wherein a body is provided with a throughgoing center opening arranged to accommodate the mating flanges, a groove is formed inside and being configured ...