US Patent Issued to AALBERTS INTEGRATED PIPING SYSTEMS AMERICAS on Sept. 16 for "Ball valve, characterized orifice insert, and method of making the same" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,364, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to AALBERTS INTEGRATED PIPING SYSTEMS AMERICAS INC. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Ball valve, characterized orifice insert, and method of making the same" was invented by Timothy Daniel Jones (Esmont, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a ball valve assembly and a method of manufacturing a ball valve assembly. In one example embodiment, the method comprises providing a pair of end caps, providing a rotary ball including a bore formed therethrough, providing a handle operatively connected to the rotary ball and configured to rotate the rotary ball, providing a characterizatio...