ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,986, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).
"Oxygen pressure relief and ventilation system and method" was invented by Scott William Weber (Goddard, Kan.), Sam Khounsombath (Wichita, Kan.), Trey Marcus Siemens (Wichita, Kan.) and Richard Lee Gaines (Augusta, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oxygen pressure relief and ventilation system includes a flow fuse fluidly coupled downstream of a pressure regulator. The pressure regulator is operatively coupled to an oxygen tank, and the oxygen tank is located in an unpressurized compartment of an aircraft. A pressure relief valve is fluidly couple...