ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,086, issued on July 29, was assigned to GD Energy Products LLC (Tulsa, Okla.).

"Liner bore seal for fluid end of a high pressure reciprocating pump" was invented by Vadim Kachkovskiy (Spring Mills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piston assembly for a reciprocating pump comprises a piston disposed within a liner, a flange extending radially outward from the liner, and a hollow cylindrical end part insertable into a bore in a fluid end of the reciprocating pump. A groove is formed about a circumference of an outer surface of the hollow cylindrical end part and is positioned to face a cylindrical, inner side wall of the bore in th...