US Patent Issued to ABC Transfer on Sept. 22 for "Device for sealed connection between two containment enclosures for improved sealing" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,499, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to ABC Transfer (Tours, France).

"Device for sealed connection between two containment enclosures for improved sealing" was invented by Julien Felix (Vendome, France), Jean-Luc Schneider (Saint Firmin des Pres, France) and Thierry Girard (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a device for a sealed connection between two doors (2, 5) which are each provided with a coaxial complementary flange (3, 7), one of the doors (5) and the flange (3) of the other door (2) being provided with at least one peripheral seal (1, 4), wherein each of the peripheral seals (1, 4) comprises an...