US Patent Issued to Spectrum Brands on July 22 for "Aquarium filter arrangement with control valve" (Missouri, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,254, issued on July 22, was assigned to Spectrum Brands Inc. (Middleton, Wis.).

"Aquarium filter arrangement with control valve" was invented by William Nathan Brunner (St. Peters, Mo.), John Lewis Shumate (Shawsville, Va.) and William D. Himes (Radford, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filter arrangement for an aquarium is disclosed. The filter arrangement can include a housing assembly, a pump assembly, a transfer tube assembly, and a valve assembly for controlling water flow through the transfer tube assembly. The transfer tube assembly can include a tube structure within which a valve body of the valve assembly is rotatably d...