US Patent Issued to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES on June 17 for "Protective bellows having an electrical circuit and covering for a mechanical joint" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,142, issued on June 17, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Protective bellows having an electrical circuit and covering for a mechanical joint" was invented by Manuel Fendler (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bellows including a cylindrical and corrugated side wall, extending about a longitudinal axis, the side wall including: an alternation of crests and of troughs, forming corrugations; flanks, each flank extending between a crest and a trough, each corrugation having a first flank and a second flank that are opposite, separated by a same trough; the bellows inc...