US Patent Issued to NORD-LOCK SWITZERLAND on July 8 for "Method and apparatus for fastening in a high fluid pressure environment" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,774, issued on July 8, was assigned to NORD-LOCK SWITZERLAND GMBH (St. Gallenkappel, Switzerland).

"Method and apparatus for fastening in a high fluid pressure environment" was invented by Andrew Duncan McPhee (Red Hill, Australia) and Adam Glenn Lutty (Red Hill, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a multi jackbolt tensioner and methods of using the same. The present invention alleviates some of the problems associated with presently available multi jackbolt tensioners."

The patent was filed on July 17, 2024, under Application No. 18/776,057.

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