ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,863, issued on June 17, was assigned to Reliance Worldwide Corporation (UK) Limited (Middlesex, Great Britain).
"Tube coupling" was invented by Glen Ansell (Edgware Middlesex, Great Britain) and Joshua Smith (West Drayton Middlesex, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tube coupling having a coupling body with an opened ended throughway to receive a tube. A collet located in the open end of the through way has a ring and flexible arms extending generally axially of the ring into the throughway. The throughway has a tapered surface convergent towards the open end and the collet arms have heads at their distal ends for engagi...