US Patent Issued to Tyco Fire Products on June 17 for "Pre-assembled pipe coupling with manually manipulatable segments" (Rhode Island Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,855, issued on June 17, was assigned to Tyco Fire Products LP (Cranston, R.I.).

"Pre-assembled pipe coupling with manually manipulatable segments" was invented by Sandra M. Lippka (Warwick, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pre-assembled pipe coupling includes a gasket, a housing surrounding the gasket, and a fastener. The housing has three segments sequentially coupled to each other to define an insertion boundary. A first segment includes a first mount extending lateral in a first direction from the wall and having a plurality of first lateral walls that define a first aperture, and a second mount extending laterally in a secon...