US Patent Issued to Utex Industries on May 13 for "Fabric and elastomeric seal for flanged connections" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,940, issued on May 13, was assigned to Utex Industries Inc. (Mansfield, Texas).

"Fabric and elastomeric seal for flanged connections" was invented by John Miller (Weimar, Texas) and Zachery Kokel (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reusable flexible seal is made from a plurality of bonded layers of a fiber base impregnated with an elastomeric material. The flexible seal is sized and shaped to be compressed in a shaped groove created between two pipeline elements to be connected together. At least one layer of fabric may be disposed in a preferred embodiment on the surface of the flexible seal to help prevent extrusion of the el...