ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,052, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to GCE GROUP AB (Malmo, Sweden).
"Area valve service unit" was invented by Gareth Pemberton (Worcester, Great Britain), Mark Webster (Norfolk, Great Britain), Antoon DeBruijn (Norfolk, Great Britain), Dhineshkumar Soundararajan (Nagar, India) and Subramani Alagarsamy (Madiwala, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas and vacuum system is disclosed, and, in particular, an area valve service unit configured to provide local isolation of individual parts of a gas and vacuum system that may be required for installation, maintenance, or in the event of an emergency. The area valve service unit can h...