US Patent Issued to Hubbell on Oct. 27 for "Cable gland" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,636, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Hubbell Ltd. (London).

"Cable gland" was invented by Andrew John Reid (Manchester, Great Britain), Jason Clark (Dukinfield, Great Britain), Lawrence Murray Lonergan (Manchester, Great Britain), Matthew James Ogden (Dukenfield, Great Britain), Carl Jackson (Dukinfield, Great Britain) and Gareth Turner (Marple, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cable gland sealing member comprising: a sleeve (19) arranged to be slidably received within a passage (9) defined in a body (5) of a cable gland, the sleeve (19) arranged to receive a settable sealing material for forming a seal to a cable pa...