US Patent Issued to Expro North Sea on July 8 for "Pressure seal with built in testing system" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,659, issued on July 8, was assigned to Expro North Sea Ltd. (Dyce, Great Britain).

"Pressure seal with built in testing system" was invented by John Henry McKay (Stonehaven, Great Britain) and David Sirda Shanks (Aberdeen, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector is described, including a housing including an internal volume, a port in the housing for receiving a conduit and providing access to the internal volume, a sealing arrangement for sealing the internal volume in the housing and a seal integrity test system including a sensor coupled to the housing. The seal integrity test system is configured to provide a meas...