ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,120, issued on May 6, was assigned to Vulcan Industrial Holdings LLC (Houston).
"System and method for valve assembly" was invented by Chance Ray Mullins (Spring, Texas), Jason David Smith (Porter, Texas) and Steven Zachary Newberg (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve assembly includes an upper portion to be coupled to guide legs, a cavity being formed within one of the upper portion or the guide legs and a coupling member being associated with the other of the upper portion or the guide legs, wherein the upper portion is coupled to the guide legs via a single force application process."
The patent was filed on Feb. 23, 2...