ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,598, issued on Jan. 27.
"Self-sealing a balloon" was invented by Wesley Warner (Anaheim, Calif.) and Troy Stark (West Palm Beach, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Filling a balloon with a volume of material, the balloon having an adhesive staging segment formed about a peripheral surface of the moldable adhesive cross sectioned profile of the moldable adhesive ring. Retaining the volume of material within an expansion cavity of the balloon by applying a tensile force in a longitudinal direction between ends of the tubular balloon neck segment to expose the moldable adhesive ring from the adhesive staging segment and compressing th...