ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,788, issued on May 20, was assigned to Mueller International LLC (Atlanta).
"Stent spring for pipe repair device" was invented by Aurelian Ioan Furcoiu (Oswego, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stent spring for a pipe repair device includes a tubular mesh structure comprising a plurality of strands arranged to define a plurality of spring openings therebetween, the tubular mesh structure defining a circumferential spring top end and a circumferential spring bottom end opposite the circumferential spring top end, a void extending axially through the tubular mesh structure from the circumferential spring bottom end to the circumfe...