US Patent Issued to Danco on Dec. 16 for "Gasket seals for drain closures" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,768, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Danco Inc. (Irving, Texas).

"Gasket seals for drain closures" was invented by Robert Clifton Jones Jr. (Rockwall, Texas), Muhammad Towheed Hossain (Dallas) and Casey J. Fregoe (The Colony, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary embodiment, among others, of the present disclosure is directed to a drain closure assembly. A head of the drain closure assembly is fastened to a top end of a stem, wherein a bottom end of the stem is insertable in a drain shoe; and a gasket is fastened around an outer cylinder of the stem below the head. The gasket comprises an upper outer portion and a lowe...