ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,657, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Hubbell Ltd. (London).
"Cable glands" was invented by Carl Jackson (Manchester, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sleeve (19) arranged to be slidably received within a passage (9) defined in a body of a cable gland (1), the sleeve (19) arranged to receive a settable sealing material for forming a seal to a cable passing through the sleeve, wherein the sleeve (19) comprises: an annular side wall (79) extending along an axial length and having a first end and a second end; and an end wall (100) capping the first end of the annular side wall (79), in which the annular side wall (79) a...