US Patent Issued to Skan on Sept. 2 for "Arrangement for protecting against unauthorized intervention in a containment using a work glove" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,618, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Skan AG (Allschwil, Switzerland).

"Arrangement for protecting against unauthorized intervention in a containment using a work glove" was invented by Christoph Joschi Geiser (Mohlin, Switzerland) and Frank Martin Lehmann (Binningen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work glove is installed at the port flange, with the result that the operator can enter the working chamber of the containment in a protected manner. A multiplicity of port flanges are usually mounted on the containment and a work glove is fastened in each case to the respective port flange. Machinery for processing materi...