US Patent Issued to A. Raymond on June 30 for "Coupling device for a tube" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,203, issued on June 30, was assigned to A. Raymond et Cie (Grenoble, France).

"Coupling device for a tube" was invented by Kevin Guibert (Grenoble, France) and Jerome Chaupin (Bret en Belledonne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coupling device includes a hollow body defining a housing having an opening, a locking ring arranged in the housing and intended to engage with an inserted tube, a first stop, a cartridge against which the tube is intended to abut in order to impose a connection state on the cartridge, and a spring exerting a force against the cartridge. The cartridge can slide between a first and a second position. Th...