US Patent Issued on Sept. 15 for "Apparatus for removable mounting of a hose into an air-conditioning duct" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,167, issued on Sept. 15.

"Apparatus for removable mounting of a hose into an air-conditioning duct" was invented by Patrick Sean Brian Cuthbert (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for removable mounting of a corrugated hose into an air-conditioning duct, a building structure including the same, and a method of terminating an air-conditioning duct. The apparatus comprises a unitary body defining a tube that is sealingly engageable with the duct and a flange at an end of the hose for abutting a wall around the duct, a plug sealingly engageable in the tube, and a cap. The tube is configured to selectively thr...