US Patent Issued to The Boeing on June 3 for "Systems and methods for conveying gas and twist-lock connectors for the same" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,457, issued on June 3, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and methods for conveying gas and twist-lock connectors for the same" was invented by Aaron J. Pedersen (Summerville, S.C.) and Lance Mouser (Goose Creek, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A twist-lock connector for coupling sections of a system for conveying gas includes a socket connector and a fitting connector. The socket connector includes a socket twist-lock. The fitting connector includes a fitting twist-lock. The socket connector receives the fitting connector to engage the fitting twist-lock and the socket twist-lock together by rotating the fi...