US Patent Issued on Dec. 16 for "Inflation fluid supply and discharge assembly, in particular for inflatable diving equipment, such as buoys, surface-marker buoys, balancing jackets or the like, and inflatable diving equipment provided with such assembly" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,145, issued on Dec. 16.

"Inflation fluid supply and discharge assembly, in particular for inflatable diving equipment, such as buoys, surface-marker buoys, balancing jackets or the like, and inflatable diving equipment provided with such assembly" was invented by Cristiano Ferrari (Sori, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inflation fluid supply and discharge assembly includes a combined two-way inlet and outlet valve having a valve body with two separate flow paths separated for flows in opposite directions. Each flow path is associated with a valve seat with a shutter, which cooperates with the valve seat in the manner of a non...