US Patent Issued to GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas on July 29 for "Clamp systems and methods of using the same with steam dryers" (North Carolina, Florida, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,106, issued on July 29, was assigned to GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC (Wilmington, N.C.).

"Clamp systems and methods of using the same with steam dryers" was invented by Valerie A. Andersen (Wilmington, N.C.), Jack T. Matsumoto (San Jose, Calif.) and Michael R. Heger (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Clamp systems include multiple, separate clamps joinable to components subject to relative rotation. Clamps may have similarly-positioned features to simplify installation and/or removal about a small area for all clamps in the system. Each clamp cannot freely rotate relative to an adjacent clamp but does ...