ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,056, issued on May 20, was assigned to VOSS Fluid GmbH (Wipperfurth, Germany).
"Connecting piece for fluid-conducting line systems" was invented by Harald Pott (Huckeswagen, Germany) and Martin Baier (Much, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connection socket for fluid-conducting line systems, and including a fluid channel extending along a fluid channel axis. The fluid channel may be connected to guide channels on at least a first and second connection ends of the connection socket. A measurement section is located between the first and second connection ends and a sensor system is provided therein to measure the pressure of a...