ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,735, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to OMERIN SAS (Ambert, France).

"Mounting clip" was invented by Frederic Murat (Mornant, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mounting clip for a domestic oven gasket formed in a segment of steel wire, the mounting clip including a base intended to be inserted into a braided tubular gasket, the base having a polygonal geometry inscribed in a plane P and, connected to said base, a head intended to be inserted into an opening made in an oven structure, the head having two legs inscribed in a plane P' orthogonal to the plane P and a tip oriented in a plane P" which forms an acute angle Alpha with th...