US Patent Issued to Gericke on July 29 for "Device for receiving and/or conducting bulk materials and/or powders with a flange connection device, and sealing element" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,176, issued on July 29, was assigned to Gericke AG (Regensdorf, Switzerland).

"Device for receiving and/or conducting bulk materials and/or powders with a flange connection device, and sealing element" was invented by Markus H. Gericke (Zollikon, Switzerland), Frank Lauer (Rauenberg, Switzerland) and Reto Schaffner (Weiningen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device has a flange including a base body with a main contact face and a further flange including a further base body with a further main contact face. In a mounted state the flange is connected to the further flange with a sealing element therebetween. The flange ha...