US Patent Issued on April 7 for "Assembly and method for preparing a pipe elbow for welding" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,633, issued on April 7.

"Assembly and method for preparing a pipe elbow for welding" was invented by Toan T. Nguyen (Mint Hill, N.C.) and Jaret Cherkewick (Fort Saskatchewan, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly and method for preparing a pipe elbow for welding. The assembly has a cone clamping sleeve assembly adapted to be inserted into an end of the pipe elbow and a faceplate assembly removably affixed to the cone clamping sleeve assembly. The cone clamping sleeve assembly has a face at one end thereof. The face has at least one locating hole and at least one screw hole. The faceplate assembly has at least one locating...