US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Nov. 25 for "Apparatus for sealingly connecting to an opening of a carrier component" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,592, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Apparatus for sealingly connecting to an opening of a carrier component" was invented by Melanie Sindel (Nuremberg, Germany), Jan Muller (Wurzburg, Germany) and Manuel Kellner (Alsfeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an apparatus, in particular a valve apparatus, for sealingly connecting to an opening of a carrier component. The apparatus includes a base body made of a hard component for the connection to an edge of a carrier component delimiting an opening, and a sealing device made of a soft component. The base body comprises at...