ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,756, issued on May 20, was assigned to TECHNETICS GROUP LLC (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Flexible seal assembly" was invented by Dave Marshall (Boylston, Mass.), Michael P. Cenedella (Webster, Mass.), Mark Whitlow (Columbia, S.C.), Bob Schricker (Charlotte, N.C.) and Caleb Garrison (Charlotte, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Flexible seal assemblies having a relatively low torsional rigidity and high longitudinal flexure to thereby allow the flexible seal assembly to flex between adjacent components and maintain a seal, even when movement between adjacent components occurs, is described. In some embodiments, the flexible seal assembly inc...