ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,698, issued on June 17, was assigned to Gustav Klauke GmbH (Remscheid, Germany).
"Pressing pliers" was invented by Egbert Frenken (Heinsberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pressing jaws are opposingly arranged in pressing pliers. Each pressing jaw has ribs with a longitudinal extension which is transverse to an entry direction of the ribs into entry openings of the other pressing jaw. A pressing mouth has a pressing opening with an opening contour formed by free marginal edges of the ribs. The ribs form an intersection of the opening contour that moves in the direction of the longitudinal extension during a pressing operatio...