ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,337, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to B/E Aerospace Inc. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).
"Push-in and snap-on seals" was invented by Nicole Sluder Whyte (Gilbert, Ariz.), Chirag Krishnamurthy (Karnataka, India), Sourabh Vijaya Manae (Bengaluru, India), Gururaja Nekkar (Bangalore, India) and Maxime Dempah (Atlanta).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seal assembly is disclosed. The seal assembly may include a seal with a seal body. The seal body may include a seal bottom surface and a cavity along a lengthwise direction of the seal body. The seal assembly may include a fastener with a shank disposed along an axis, a stem protruding up from the s...