US Patent Issued to SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS on Dec. 30 for "Seal with radial cut torus spring" (Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,159, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS Corp. (Malvern, Pa.).

"Seal with radial cut torus spring" was invented by Chien Nguyen (Barrington, R.I.) and Xiang Yan (Barrington, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include providing a seal for an assembly. The seal includes a jacket having a base, an inner sealing leg, and an outer sealing leg, and further includes a spring disposed within the jacket between and in contact with the inner sealing leg and the outer sealing leg. The spring includes a metallic annular body comprising an inner diameter and an outer diameter, and a plurality ...