ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,472, issued on May 20, was assigned to TCO AS (Indre Arna, Norway).
"Tensile release mechanism" was invented by Adrian Caruana (Fana, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a plug assembly arranged in a housing, where the plug assembly comprises a glass assembly comprising a plug; a seat arranged to support the plug, a breaker object and a tensile release mechanism comprising a tensile body and a tensile element, wherein the tensile element is arranged along the tensile body, the tensile release mechanism being arranged to break at the tensile element at an applied threshold tensile force, the plug ass...