ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,849, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Frankische Industrial Pipes GMBH & Co. KG (Konigsberg, Germany).

"High-pressure fluid line" was invented by Manfred Krauss (Hettstadt, Germany), Daniel Spielberg (Nuremberg, Germany), Dominik Blummert (Konigsberg in Bayern, Germany), Mike Jurischka (Schweinfurt, Germany) and Soren Schroter (Hallstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high-pressure fluid line including a corrugated tube defining a fluid flow channel its interior, wherein a wall of the corrugated tube, in parallel with the extension direction of the fluid flow channel, comprises a sequence of wave peaks and wave troughs. Th...