US Patent Issued to Mueller International on July 1 for "Hydrant nozzle cap spacer" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,028, issued on July 1, was assigned to Mueller International LLC (Atlanta).

"Hydrant nozzle cap spacer" was invented by Daryl Lee Gibson (Chattanooga, Tenn.), Bruce Robertson (Toronto) and Mohammad Hassan Sobhani (Burlington, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nozzle cap spacer for a hydrant nozzle cap includes a spacer body defining an outer body edge, the spacer body defining a spacer body thickness; and a resilient first spacer spring arm extending from the outer body edge and biased away from the spacer body in an extended orientation, wherein the first spacer spring arm defines a first spring arm thickness; wherein the first...