US Patent Issued to Edwards on July 7 for "Sealing gasket with one or more positioning protrusions" (British, Czech Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,457, issued on July 7, was assigned to Edwards Ltd. (Burgess Hill, Great Britain).

"Sealing gasket with one or more positioning protrusions" was invented by Robin Hockley (Burgess Hill, Great Britain), 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, the sealing gasket (20) comprising: a first surface (30, 40); a second surface (32, 42) opposite to the first surface (30, 40); opposing side walls (34, 36; 44, 46) disposed between the first surface (30, 40) and the second surface (32, 42); and one or more protrusion...