US Patent Issued to Norma Germany on Dec. 16 for "Profile clamp, flange connection, and turbocharger comprising same" (Czech Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,063, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Norma Germany GmbH (Maintal, Germany).

"Profile clamp, flange connection, and turbocharger comprising same" was invented by Julius Oplustil (Hustopece, Czech Republic), Rudolf Polivka (Hustopece, Czech Republic), Lukas Dolezal (Hustopece, Czech Republic), Lukas Polasek (Hustopece, Czech Republic), Jiri Zukal (Hustopece, Czech Republic) and Martin Repka (Hustopece, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A profile clamp includes a profile strip which extends in a circumferential direction about a clamp center and has two clamping heads which are connected to one another via a clamping elem...