ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,561, issued on March 11, was assigned to GD ENERGY PRODUCTS LLC (Tulsa, Okla.).
"Sealing assembly with repositionable seal" was invented by Adam Bradley Avey (Tulsa, Okla.) and Konner Casey Kay (Broken Arrow, Okla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealing assembly for a fluid end of a reciprocating pump is installable within a segment of a casing of the fluid end and is arranged to form a seal with the segment. The sealing assembly includes a closure element and a seal element. The closure element has a sealing portion with a lateral surface that faces an interior wall of the segment of the fluid end and that includes a single groov...