US Patent Issued to BEST PUMP AND FLOW on May 27 for "Valve stop for use with a fluid end assembly" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,167, issued on May 27, was assigned to BEST PUMP AND FLOW LLC (Willow Park, Texas).

"Valve stop for use with a fluid end assembly" was invented by Katherine Goodnight Schaller (Fort Worth, Texas), Tyrone Walker (Fort Worth, Texas), Christopher Kowalski (Fort Worth, Texas), Jeffrey Plaisted (Fort Worth, Texas) and Jonathan M. Brinson (Fort Worth, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid end assembly has a body with at least one bore therein in which the bore has a retaining shoulder extending inwardly therefrom, a valve slidably movable in the bore, a spring having one end affixed to a surface of the valve and positioned in the in...