US Patent Issued to IBCO on Dec. 2 for "Controlled bending device and pipe junction sealing packer incorporating same" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,937, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to IBCO PTY LTD (Coromandel East, Australia).

"Controlled bending device and pipe junction sealing packer incorporating same" was invented by Ian Roger Bateman (Coromandel East, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controlled bending device in the form of an elongate member including a series of blocks configured to direct and/or control an extent of bending of the elongate member. The present invention further relates to a sealing packer for use in installing a flexible liner into a junction between a main pipe and a branch pipe, the sealing packer incorporating the bending device in a flexib...