ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,860, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Franklin Fueling Systems LLC (Madison, Wis.).

"Testable termination fitting" was invented by Kiran Muggulla (Madison, Wis.), James Novak (Evansville, Wis.), Todd Breuer (McFarland, Wis.), Justin F. Kuehn (Sun Prairie, Wis.) and Randall Boucher (Saco, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A termination fitting assembly for use with a conduit includes the conduit comprising a primary pipe positioned centrally within a secondary pipe along a longitudinal axis of the conduit and the conduit having an interstitial space defined between the primary pipe and secondary pipe. The termination fitting assemb...