ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,154, issued on Aug. 11.
"Protective cover structure for the slip assembly" was invented by Esra Ozcelik (Yunusemre, Turkey).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protective cover assembly for a drive shaft has a yoke shaft, a sliding sleeve, a protective cover tube connected to the yoke shaft at an end thereof, a seal positioned to the yoke shaft at one end thereof, a seal positioned at an end of the protective cover tube adjacent the sliding sleeve so as to seal between the protective cover tube and the sliding sleeve, a carrier body connected to the end of said protective cover tube, and a grip surface positioned at a lower end of the ca...