US Patent Issued to SWAGELOK on Dec. 2 for "Spring return valve handle arrangements" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,907, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SWAGELOK COMPANY (Solon, Ohio).

"Spring return valve handle arrangements" was invented by Matthew Dixon (Parma, Ohio), Joseph Bashover (Lakewood, Ohio), R. Scott Headings (Chesterland, Ohio), Karim Mahraz (Willoughby, Ohio), Ercan Balikci (Solon, Ohio), Kristopher Scott Owens (Brook Park, Ohio), Samuel Gunther Houser (Southington, Ohio) and Michael Bestic (Lyndhurst, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spring return cartridge for a rotary actuated valve includes a torsion spring having a spring-loaded intermediate portion extending between first and second end portions and a spring carrier slee...