ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,361, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to G.W. Lisk Co. Inc. (Clifton Springs, N.Y.).
"Valve assembly and method" was invented by Brian Smith (Walworth, N.Y.), Daniel Meath (Clifton Springs, N.Y.) and Stephen Muscarella (West Henrietta, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure present a valve assembly that includes a valve body having a gas passage bore, a valving bore extending along a longitudinal axis and intersecting the gas passage bore, a first bearing surface concentric with the longitudinal axis and a radially spaced apart second bearing surface concentric with the longitudinal axis, wherein a...