US Patent Issued to Edwards on Aug. 25 for "Sealing gasket" (British, Czech Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,493, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Edwards Ltd. (Burgess Hill, Great Britain).

"Sealing gasket" was invented by Alan Ernest Kinnaird Holbrook (Burgess Hill, Great Britain) and Jan Kolenyak (Lutin, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealing gasket (20) for a vacuum pump comprising: a first sealing member (22) defining a closed shape (preferably a rounded square or rounded rectangle) and comprising: a first surface (30); a second surface (32) opposite the first surface (30); a first inner surface (34); and a first outer surface (36) opposite to the first inner surface (34), wherein the first inner surface (34) and the...