US Patent Issued to Mueller International on Dec. 2 for "Bar linkage for friction-fit range reducer" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,931, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Mueller International LLC (Atlanta).

"Bar linkage for friction-fit range reducer" was invented by Timothy J. Mitchell (Hixson, Tenn.), Steve Kent Fearnow (Soddy-Daisy, Tenn.) and Jason White Bradley (Soddy-Daisy, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bar linkage for a pipe coupling can include a first bar configured to span two end rings of the pipe coupling; a second bar configured to span the two end rings of the pipe coupling; and a single tensioner extending through each of the first bar and the second bar and joining the first bar to the second bar along an axis of the bar linkage in an ass...