US Patent Issued to Norma Germany on Aug. 18 for "Profiled clamp" (British, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,119, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Norma Germany GmbH (Maintal, Germany).

"Profiled clamp" was invented by Gerrit von Breitenbach (Maintal, Germany), Belal Akremi (Berkshire, Great Britain), Tatjana Rumbauskiene (Berkshire, Great Britain), Mateusz Jarosz (Berkshire, Great Britain) and Jorge Marques (Berkshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clamp having a first profiled clamp half and a second profiled clamp half. Two flange parts can be connected to one another with the application of an axial force. A first tightening head is formed at one end of the first clamp half and a second tightening head is formed at on...