US Patent Issued to Preformed Line Products on Aug. 18 for "Grommet for a splice enclosure and a splice enclosure including a grommet" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,608, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Preformed Line Products Co. (Mayfield Village, Ohio).

"Grommet for a splice enclosure and a splice enclosure including a grommet" was invented by Randy G Cloud (Mentor, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A grommet for sealing a first aperture formed in a splice enclosure includes a body that is receivable within the first aperture, and is subjected to a compressive force exerted by a sidewall of the splice enclosure defining the first aperture while the grommet is installed within the first aperture. The body defines a passage extending from a first end of the body to a second end of the body....