US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on July 29 for "Torque-limiter coupling for valve actuator" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,165, issued on July 29, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Torque-limiter coupling for valve actuator" was invented by Mahdi Y. Dobaisi (Shaybah, Saudi Arabia) and Hamzah M. Moqdad (Shaybah, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve actuator system includes a gearbox assembly including an output gear for coupling to a valve stem, an input gear operably coupled to the output gear to drive rotation of the output gear and an input shaft operably coupled to the input gear to drive rotation of the input gear, a torque-limiter coupling having a solid body defining a proximal end and a distal end, ...