US Patent Issued to SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS PAMPUS on April 22 for "Ring, method, and assembly for component displacement control" (British, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,674, issued on April 22, was assigned to SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS PAMPUS GMBH (Willich, Germany).

"Ring, method, and assembly for component displacement control" was invented by Lukas Plioska (Nettetal, Germany), Brandon S. Murphy (West Milford, N.J.), Timothy J. Hagan (Succasunna, N.J.) and Neil James (Chepstow, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly having an outer component, an inner component, and a ring positioned between the outer component and the inner component, where the ring has at least one radially extending projection adapted to seat within at least one groove in the inner component or outer co...