ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,657, issued on April 22, was assigned to Eaton Intelligent Power Ltd. (Dublin).

"Pressure relief assembly and a valve assembly that uses the pressure relief assembly" was invented by Raymond Bruce McLauchlan (Macomb Township, Mich.), Eugene Francis Moody II (Holly, Mich.), Pramod Dnyaneshwar Jadhav (Pune, India), Robert Boychuk (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Sascha Hermann (Sinzheim, Germany) and Mustafa Huseyin (Karlsruhe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pressure relief assembly includes a plurality of valve components and a cap configured to house the valve components. The cap includes a ring having a retaining portion. The pres...