US Patent Issued to Parker-Hannifin on Sept. 15 for "Fitting assembly for collapse-resistant hose" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,159, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Parker-Hannifin Corp. (Cleveland).

"Fitting assembly for collapse-resistant hose" was invented by Ty A. Henry (Atwater, Ohio), Steven M. Powell (Chardon, Ohio) and Joshua M. Wolff (Stow, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hose fitting assembly for a collapse-resistant hose, includes a sleeve having a forward and rearward sleeve end portion, the rearward sleeve end portion having an opening adapted to receive a hose end portion; a fitting having an optionally flared rearward fitting end portion operatively coupled to the forward sleeve end portion, the rearward fitting end portion having an...