ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,785, issued on April 1, was assigned to VRG Controls LLC (Lake Zurich, Ill.).

"Gas control system and method with bracketed deadband" was invented by Vladimir Rimboym (Highland Park, Ill.) and James M. Garvey (Glen Ellyn, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system having a primary run and a trim run, each run including an inlet coupled to a main gas supply line, a pneumatically actuated control valve positioned downstream of the inlet, a pneumatic pressure controller having variable deadband adjustment, and an outlet feeding into a gas supply line to the facility. The control valve of the primary run is preferably high-capa...