US Patent Issued to Parker-Hannifin on Oct. 28 for "Blind mate fluid coupling with misalignment compensation" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,032, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Parker-Hannifin Corp. (Cleveland).

"Blind mate fluid coupling with misalignment compensation" was invented by Timothy T. Marquis (Otsego, Minn.), Jason R. Koller (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Andrew J. Holst (Plymouth, Minn.) and Leonard Nick (Rockford, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coupling member for a blind mate fluid coupling including a housing and a fluid connector configured to connect to a fluid conduit, the fluid connector being fixed in position relative to the housing. The coupling member further includes a valve body at least partially extending in the housing. The valve body can ...