US Patent Issued to AURAY MANAGING on Dec. 30 for "Clamping ring and method of forming the same" (Spanish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,776, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to AURAY MANAGING S.L. (Barcelona, Spain).

"Clamping ring and method of forming the same" was invented by Iker Agirre Urzelai (Palau Plegamans, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a clamping ring for a cold-expansion joining system includes providing an extruded pipe part made of a cross-linked polymeric material where, while extruding the pipe part, the inner diameter is formed bigger than the outer diameter of a flexible cross-linked polymeric pipe onto which the clamping ring is positioned before making a pipe connection; providing an injection molded annular part hav...