US Patent Issued to FEDERAL-MOGUL MOTORPARTS on Sept. 16 for "Self-forming gasket assembly and methods of construction and assembly thereof" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,359, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to FEDERAL-MOGUL MOTORPARTS LLC (Northville, Mich.).

"Self-forming gasket assembly and methods of construction and assembly thereof" was invented by Paul Saunders (Oxfordshire, Great Britain), Bartosz Gagor (Northlake, Ill.), Edward Widder (Antioch, Ill.), Rich Larson (Des Plaines, Ill.) and Steven Kueltzo (Aurora, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gasket assembly and methods of construction and assembly thereof are provided. The gasket assembly includes an elastically deformable, resilient carrier layer having an upper surface and a lower surface extending in planar, generally parallel rela...