US Patent Issued to Reliance Worldwide on Sept. 8 for "Tubular connector" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,787, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Reliance Worldwide Corp. (Atlanta).

"Tubular connector" was invented by William Vernon Kluss (Woombye, Australia), Eliana Pippen (Atlanta), Randy Graves (Atlanta), Sai Kishore Ravisankar (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Samantha Kelly (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A push-to-connect fitting that includes a connector body, a sealing member, a grab ring, a cartridge, a retainer sleeve, a plurality of latches, and an interference portion. The sealing member is configured to form a sealing engagement with a fluid conduit. The grab ring includes a plurality of teeth configured for coupling to the flu...