ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,855, issued on June 10, was assigned to ELRINGKLINGER AG (Dettingen, Germany).
"Housing cover" was invented by Jochen Schollhammer (Dettingen, Germany), Bernhard Eberle (Metzingen, Germany) and Tobias Kunert (Reutlingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To create a housing cover for fixing to a housing, wherein the housing cover is provided with a plurality of fastening means through openings and with a sealing bead that comprises an elastomeric material, and wherein the sealing bead is arranged on a seal support face of the housing cover, in which housing cover the course of the sealing bead can be more freely designed and, in...