US Patent Issued to QOS Group on May 27 for "Cover for a valve handle and an assembly of a valve including a valve handle and a cover" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,184, issued on May 27, was assigned to QOS Group B.V. (Maarssen, Netherlands).

"Cover for a valve handle and an assembly of a valve including a valve handle and a cover" was invented by Elmar Oostveen (Nieuwersluis, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cover for a valve handle comprises an elongate base including a front side and a rear side, a protrusion for being inserted into a corresponding hole of the valve handle. The protrusion projects from the rear side of the base. A retaining element extends opposite to the rear side and is fixed to the base. The base and the retaining element together define a receiving space incl...