ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,905, issued on June 24, was assigned to Nuovo Pignone Tecnologie-S.R.L. (Florence, Italy).
"Reducing noise in ball valves" was invented by Kyle McKinley Bryan (Jacksonville, Fla.), Jonathan Clyde Whitten (Orange Park, Fla.), Abdul Raoof Mohamed (Jacksonville, Fla.) and Jeffrey Louis Johanning (Ponte Vedra, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component for a ball valve that is configured to reduce noise. The component or "shoe" can install into the valve body, for example, on a downstream side of a throttling ball. In one implementation, the embodiments comprise an annular ring with an inner surface and an outer surface. The inner s...