ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,279, issued on April 21, was assigned to Compart Systems PTE. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Gasket retainer for surface mount fluid component" was invented by Kim Ngoc Vu (Yorba Linda, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gasket retainer that is absent sharp corners, has apertures of reasonable dimensional tolerance, and may be conveniently made by a variety of manufacturing processes. The retainer is made from thin flat springy material that readily returns to form after slight bending. Representative gasket capturing apertures are of smoothly non-convex outline with major dimension sufficiently large to allow passage of a ring shaped gask...