ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,261, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Purem GmbH (Neunkirchen, Germany).

"Connecting flange for connecting two tubular components to each other" was invented by Andrei Buchhammer (Ludwigsburg, Germany), Lorenz Hermann (Schorndorf, Germany) and Remus Boriga (Wernau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connecting flange for mutually connecting two tubular components including a flange body annularly surrounding a flange longitudinal axis with a first flange contact region and a second flange contact region, which is arranged in the direction of the flange longitudinal axis at a distance from the first flange contact region. At t...