ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,051, issued on March 25, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Pressure release housing" was invented by Henning Johannes Michael Pries (Lower Saxony, Germany), August Wallmeyer (Recke, Germany), Christof Hermann Esselmann (Nordwalde, Germany), Guido Temme (Bad Iburg, Germany) and Thomas Niehaus (Niedersachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment is a device comprising a first and second section of a housing connected by a connection region that uses a plurality of connection elements, an inlet connected to the first or the second section, an outlet connected to the first or the second sec...