US Patent Issued to Vulcan Industrial Holdings on July 1 for "Packing assembly with threaded sleeve for interaction with an installation tool" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,253, issued on July 1, was assigned to Vulcan Industrial Holdings LLC (Houston).

"Packing assembly with threaded sleeve for interaction with an installation tool" was invented by Chance Ray Mullins (Spring, Texas), Jason David Smith (Porter, Texas), Steven Zachary Newberg (Houston), Kyle Matthew Ellisor (Katy, Texas) and Aric Martin Gillispie (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packing assembly includes a packing sleeve having a first sleeve portion and a second sleeve portion, wherein a first sleeve portion outer diameter is larger than a second sleeve portion outer diameter and a first sleeve portion inner diameter is larger t...