ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,676, issued on May 20, was assigned to KA Group AG (Zurich).
"Flow restricting orifice" was invented by Laurentius Andreas Gerardus Mentink (Haaksbergen, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for connecting a tube having a tube connector and a flow restricting orifice. The flow restricting orifice includes a tubular nozzle having an insert portion for insertion into a mouth of the tube connector and a visible marking having a marking element which extends radially outwardly from the tubular nozzle and which includes a frangible connection which is connected to the tubular nozzle and which has at least one predetermin...