ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,521, issued on June 2, was assigned to ELRINGKLINGER KUNSTSTOFFTECHNIK GMBH (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany) and ELRINGKLINGER AG (Dettingen/Erms, Germany).

"Sealing element and manufacturing process" was invented by Benjamino Rocco Formisano (Dettingen/Erms, Germany), Ardijan Halili (Dettingen/Erms, Germany) and Harald Schober (Dettingen/Erms, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealing element made of a plastic, which is embodied to seal against an actuator and consists of a plastic or resin that can be handled in an injection molding process. In order to significantly improve a sealing tightness of injection molded sealing elem...