US Patent Issued to PENTAIR FLOW TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 30 for "Cutting blade assembly" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,056, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to PENTAIR FLOW TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Delavan, Wis.).

"Cutting blade assembly" was invented by Shane Robert Vallen (Copley, Ohio) and Douglas Richard Rogers (Perrysville, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cutting blade assembly including a cutting plate, a plurality of cutting slots formed in the cutting plate, and a cutting hub. The cutting plate includes an axial face and a central opening. The plurality of cutting slots are circumferentially spaced about the central opening. Each of the plurality of cutting slots intersects the axial face and defines a respective axial cutting edge at an inte...