US Patent Issued to PURIFICO on July 8 for "Coupling for pipes, fluid flow system including the coupling, and method of reducing contamination of water" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,375, issued on July 8, was assigned to PURIFICO CORP. (Forest Park, Ill.).

"Coupling for pipes, fluid flow system including the coupling, and method of reducing contamination of water" was invented by Radames Dejesus (Forest Park, Ill.), Richard E. Nawracaj (Burr Ridge, Ill.) and Ralph Bonanotte (Mokena, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system which includes a semi-rigid pipe (SRP) disposed inside a first existing pipe and two coupling assemblies disposed over and sealingly coupled to the ends of the SRP. Each assembly includes: a coupling with a nipple configured to receive and be disposed inside the SRP; and a comp...