US Patent Issued to ROTAREX on Nov. 11 for "Closing member of a gas valve for very high pressure" (Luxembourger, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,540, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to ROTAREX S.A. (Lintgen, Luxembourg).

"Closing member of a gas valve for very high pressure" was invented by Paul Muzzo (Yutz, France), Guillaume Massin (Heisdorf, Luxembourg) and Philippe Schmitz (Steinsel, Luxembourg).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve closing member for cooperating with a valve seat, comprising: a body a front circular face forming a central protrusion along a longitudinal axis of the body; a seal forming a ring fitted on the front circular face and around the central protrusion; and a retainer forming a ring surrounding the seal and attached to the body for retaining the s...