US Patent Issued to Captent on Oct. 28 for "Built-in end coupling for high pressure reinforced bonded rubber hose assemblies" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,023, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Captent Inc. (Houston).

"Built-in end coupling for high pressure reinforced bonded rubber hose assemblies" was invented by Gardner T. Baldwin (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect of the disclosure is a method of attaching a hose coupling to a reinforced hose. In one embodiment, the method comprises: skiving the first end of the reinforced hose to expose at least one reinforcing layer of a plurality of reinforcing layers of the reinforced hose; positioning the skived first end of the reinforced hose in an inner cavity of the hose coupling; introducing a vacuum into the inner cavity...