US Patent Issued to Volvo Truck on Sept. 16 for "Method of assembling a clamp to a flexible hose for a vehicle, and a clamping arrangement" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,376, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method of assembling a clamp to a flexible hose for a vehicle, and a clamping arrangement" was invented by Pavan Ashok (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of assembling a clamp to a flexible hose for a vehicle. The method comprises providing the hose with a magnetic strip such that the magnetic strip has its main direction of extension in a circumferential direction of the hose; providing a clamp to the hose, at least a part of the clamp being magnetically attracted by the magnetic strip so that the part of the clamp becomes align...