ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,133, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Goodrich Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for regulators for inflation systems for evacuation assemblies" was invented by Ivan Kruts (Dixon, Calif.) and Kamil Czechowski (Mirkow, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for assembling a regulator includes moving a piston into a bore of a regulator housing and moving an adjuster plug into the bore and axially adjacent the piston, moving an adjuster plug stop into the bore, wherein the adjuster plug stop comprises a tapered surface configured to contact a tapered head of the adjuster plug, and moving a spring member into the bo...