US Patent Issued to SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS RENCOL on March 25 for "Tolerance ring, assembly, and method of making and using the same" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,009, issued on March 25, was assigned to SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS RENCOL Ltd. (Coventry, Great Britain).

"Tolerance ring, assembly, and method of making and using the same" was invented by Thomas Childs (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tolerance ring (200) including a tolerance ring sidewall (404) including a plurality of waves (or bridges) (452) extending at least one of radially inward or outward and having first (416) and second end portions (420) terminating at first (417) and second ends (421), respectively, where the tolerance ring has a first radius of curvature Ri, measured at a point bisecti...