US Patent Issued to CARL FREUDENBERG on July 7 for "Seal and method of making the same" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,512, issued on July 7, was assigned to CARL FREUDENBERG KG (Weinheim, Germany).

"Seal and method of making the same" was invented by Gonzalo Barillas (Alsfeld-Altenburg, Germany), Albert Ilinseer (Seevetal, Germany), Andrej Fink (Seevetal, Germany), Jens Kuhnert (Buchholz, Germany), Frank Struebing (Ammersbek, Germany) and Roland Fietz (Neustadt-Momberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a seal, including, in a first method step, making a spiralized profile string of at least one thermoplastic elastomeric material, the spiralized profile string including a retaining portion and at least one sealing lip w...