ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,236, issued on July 14, was assigned to ElringKlinger AG (Dettingen, Germany).
"Rupture device and method for producing a rupture device" was invented by Kirk Eidam (Bad Camberg, Germany), Bjorn Schulz (Selters, Germany), Bernd Schafer (Mengerskirchen, Germany), Ingo Wachholz (Runkel, Germany) and Mathias Scherer (Sigmaringen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to provide a rupture device which can be produced as simply as possible and which enables a controlled opening of a container in the event of an overpressure, it is proposed that the rupture device comprise a wall component which has at least one rupture web, wher...