US Patent Issued to Blue Origin Manufacturing on Nov. 18 for "Fluid damped check valve, and associated systems and methods" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,995, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Blue Origin Manufacturing LLC (Huntsville, Ala.).

"Fluid damped check valve, and associated systems and methods" was invented by Justin K. Bahrami (Bellevue, Wash.) and Kyle J. Meeuwsen (Puyallup, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fluid damped check valves are described herein. A representative check valve includes a piston assembly movably positioned within a housing. The housing can include a flow chamber, a damping chamber containing a damping fluid, and a leak chamber fluidly coupled between the flow chamber and the damping chamber. The piston assembly can include a poppet positioned in ...