ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,332, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Mueller International LLC (Atlanta).
"Pipe repair assembly" was invented by Aurelian Ioan Furcoiu (Chattanooga, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pipe repair assembly includes a stent moveable between a compressed configuration and an expanded configuration; and a deployment probe comprising a release mechanism, the release mechanism configurable in an engaged position, wherein the release mechanism is engaged with the stent and the stent is in the compressed configuration, and a disengaged position, wherein the release mechanism is disengaged from the stent and the stent is in the expande...