US Patent Issued to Umfotec on Aug. 26 for "Sound reducer, method of making same, and fluid conduit system including such a sound reducer" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,627, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Umfotec GmbH (Northeim, Germany).

"Sound reducer, method of making same, and fluid conduit system including such a sound reducer" was invented by Berend Linke (Noerten-Hardenberg, Germany), Ralf Buck (Kipfenberg/Schelldorf, Germany) and Viktor Hurlebaus (Northeim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sound reducer (10) has a housing (14) with a housing wall bounding an interior space (141). The housing wall has a mantle (142) extending longitudinally along a housing axis. Two end walls (143) are transverse to the housing axis. A main tube (12) extends through the interior space (141) and ha...