ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,184, issued on March 18, was assigned to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER Ltd. (Dublin).
"Failsafe actuated valve" was invented by Graham Peter Baker (Issaquah, Wash.), Parag More (Maharashtra, India), Daniel Peck (Southampton, Great Britain), Abhijit Shrikrishna Borawake (Maharashtra, India) and Jason Robert Miner (Villa Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A failsafe valve system configured to bring the valve to a predefined state (e.g., fully opened, fully closed) if the actuator fails (e.g., loss of power). The failsafe system of the present disclosure is energy efficient and reliable."
The patent was filed on June 23, 2022, unde...