US Patent Issued to Platinum Technologies on Aug. 18 for "Seal assembly method and apparatus" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,897, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Platinum Technologies Ltd. (Ontario, Canada).

"Seal assembly method and apparatus" was invented by John G. Petrachek (Etobicoke, Canada), Joel P. Vieira (Etobicoke, Canada) and Doug F. Maikawa (Etobicoke, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seal assembly, including a first conduit member having a first seat and a second conduit member having a second seat. The second conduit member is coupled to the first conduit member such that the first and second conduit members are moveable between at least a rest configuration in which the first and second seats are a rest distance apart, and a compre...