US Patent Issued to Watts Regulator on April 29 for "Dual containment pipe assembly" (North Carolina, Massachusetts, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,056, issued on April 29, was assigned to Watts Regulator Co. (North Andover, Mass.).

"Dual containment pipe assembly" was invented by Paul Lake (Waltham, Mass.), Carl Bjoerk (Fayetteville, N.C.) and Austin Lewis (Bonham, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual containment pipe assembly includes an outer containment pipe defining a rib on an interior surface thereof. An inner containment pipe can be positioned inside of the outer containment pipe. The inner containment pipe has at least one clip on an exterior surface thereof. At least one spacer wheel is between the outer containment pipe and the inner containment pipe. The spacer...