US Patent Issued to Kidde-Fenwal on Sept. 30 for "Selector and lockout valve mistake-proof design features" (Massachusetts, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,139, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Kidde-Fenwal LLC (Ashland, Mass.).

"Selector and lockout valve mistake-proof design features" was invented by Steven Mey (Milford, Mass.), Luis Horton (Davenport, Fla.) and Anthony Cilluffo (Ashland, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Valve assemblies are described having a valve positioner, a ball valve assembly configured to be actuated by the valve positioner between an open state and a closed state, an indicator configured to provide visual indication of the state of the ball valve assembly, and a positioning pin configured between the valve positioner and the ball valve assembly, the p...