US Patent Issued to SCHAAF on Oct. 7 for "Method for installing and/or maintaining a flange connection, and tool and use" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,336, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SCHAAF GmbH & Co. KG (Erkelenz, Germany).

"Method for installing and/or maintaining a flange connection, and tool and use" was invented by Ralf Kollges (Erkelenz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for installation and/or maintenance of a flange connection includes screw connections with a manually movable tool including a screw tensioning structure, a processing unit and a screw identification sensor. The method includes assigning a one-to-one identification to each screw connection of the flange connection, determining a screw connection to be tensioned, positioning the tool on a r...