ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,472, issued on May 5, was assigned to GE VERNOVA INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Compression sealing gasket and sealing system" was invented by Lukas Treier (Oberentfelden, Switzerland), Thomas Berteloot (Villeurbanne, France), Maxime Perret (Oberentfelden, Switzerland) and Bernhard Spichiger (Oberentfelden, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compression sealing gasket having a main body of general planar extension, or extending in a plane, including an inner side and an outer side, and end faces, which delimit the gasket along an axis perpendicular to the plane, and connect the inner side and the outer sid...