ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,262, issued on April 21, was assigned to Hoerbiger Wien GmbH (Vienna).
"Packaging ring with wear opening" was invented by Bernhard Spiegl (Vienna), Andreas Kaufmann (Vienna), Martin Lagler (Vienna), Marian Janko-Grasslober (Vienna) and Matthias Kornfeld (Brunn/Geb., Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to packing rings. In one example embodiment, a packing ring includes a first axial ring end, a second axial ring end, at least three ring segments, and at least one wear opening, The at least one wear opening on at least one of the the at least three ring segments, and exten...