ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,366, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Globalforce IP Ltd. (Ponsonby, New Zealand).

"Trigger valves for pressurized fluid operated devices" was invented by Ian Craig Paterson (Auckland, New Zealand) and William Michael Duff (Lynmouth, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuation trigger for a device, comprising or including, A dose chamber to hold a charge of high pressure working fluid, received from a high pressure source, A dose valve, biased closed to seal the dose chamber off from a working chamber, and hold the charge in the dose chamber, A hammer operated by a piston with a driven chamber on a first side of the pisto...