US Patent Issued to WELDFIT on March 25 for "Sealing plug assemblies, sealing elements, and bleed lances for line stopping a pipe and systems and methods thereof" (Oklahoma, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,079, issued on March 25, was assigned to WELDFIT LLC (Houston).

"Sealing plug assemblies, sealing elements, and bleed lances for line stopping a pipe and systems and methods thereof" was invented by David Albertson (Skiatook, Okla.), Brian Anderson (Tomball, Texas), Paul Hatch (Edmond, Okla.), Ray Prater (Kiefer, Okla.), Joaquin Reyes Espinosa (Sand Springs, Okla.), Robert Niksich (Corpus Cristi, Texas), Timothy Irelan (League City, Texas) and Brian Gresh (Tulsa, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a sealing plug assembly for stopping flow of a product in a pipe, the assembly having two sealing eleme...