ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,118, issued on May 26, was assigned to NORMA GERMANY GMBH (Maintal, Germany).
"Flow-optimized line connector, and line connector assembly" was invented by David Schneider (Darmstadt, Germany), Daniel Kintea (GroB-Umstadt, Germany) and Hannes Clasen (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A line connector assembly and a line connector for fluidically connecting fluid lines is described. A housing has: a receiving space; a connecting piece; and a channel through which fluid can flow. The channel through which fluid can flow has a first straight channel portion and a curved channel portion. The curved channel portion d...