US Patent Issued to SMARTSEAL AS on Aug. 5 for "Device and method for handling a sealing device" (Dutch, Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,045, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SMARTSEAL AS (Stavanger, Norway).

"Device and method for handling a sealing device" was invented by Rune Kristian Knutsen (Stavanger, Norway) and Jeroen Gerrit Anton Gebbink (Helmond, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a device (100) and method for handling a sealing device (1) in order to position the discharge pipe (10) of a valve (4) of the sealing device into a storage position. The handling device comprises a cap support (150) to be arranged at the downstream side of the protective cap (61) and configured to support the protective cap, and a pushing device (...