US Patent Issued to Viega Technology on April 21 for "Pipe connector for tightly connecting two pipe ends, use thereof and method" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,282, issued on April 21, was assigned to Viega Technology GmbH & Co. KG (Attendorn, Germany).

"Pipe connector for tightly connecting two pipe ends, use thereof and method" was invented by Andreas Muller (Freudenberg, Germany), Klaus Schroder (Attendorn, Germany), Nadine Riili (Lennestadt, Germany), Karsten Bohr (Attendorn, Germany) and Natascha Kaufmann (Attendorn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a pipe connector for tightly connecting a first pipe end to a second pipe end, with a sleeve-like base body which has a first receptacle for inserting a first pipe end and a second receptacle for inserting a ...