US Patent Issued to Campagnolo on Dec. 16 for "Hydraulic connector for a hydraulic system of a bicycle and process for connecting together pieces of tube of a hydraulic system of a bicycle" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,062, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Campagnolo S.R.L. (Vicenza, Italy).

"Hydraulic connector for a hydraulic system of a bicycle and process for connecting together pieces of tube of a hydraulic system of a bicycle" was invented by Mario Meggiolan (Creazzo, Italy) and Filippo Bove (Padua, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydraulic connector for removably joining together a first and a second piece of a tube of a hydraulic system of a bicycle includes a tubular sleeve extending along a middle axis, a first area of the tubular sleeve to be fixed to the first piece of tube, and a second area of the tubular sleeve to be fixed t...