ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,744, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Zhejiang, China).

"Assembly for preventing clamping stagnation of valve rod, and valve structure and method for preventing clamping stagnation of valve rod" was invented by Jinyuan Qian (Zhejiang, China), Juan Mu (Zhejiang, China), Zhenhao Lin (Zhejiang, China) and Zhijiang Jin (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an assembly for preventing clamping stagnation of a valve rod, and a valve structure and method for preventing clamping stagnation of a valve rod. The assembly for preventing clamping stagnation of a valve rod includes a rigid ring and an el...