US Patent Issued to NORMA GERMANY on Nov. 3 for "Profiled clamp" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,891, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NORMA GERMANY GMBH (Maintal, Germany).

"Profiled clamp" was invented by Manfred Kruger (Maintal, Germany), Natan Lantsmann (Maintal, Germany), Achim Kamp (Maintal, Germany) and Detlef Henrich (Maintal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A profiled clamp has a clamp band, which extends in a peripheral direction about a longitudinal axis between a first clamping head and a second clamping head, the clamp band having a clip element. The clip element has a fastening portion, which fastens the clip element to the clamp band such that the clip element is stationary at least in the peripheral direct...