ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,821, issued on March 3.

"Multicycle valve system and method" was invented by Nauman Mhaskar (Cypress, Texas), Bryan Blomquist (Spring, Texas), Zhihui Zhang (Katy, Texas), Tim Ramsey (The Woodlands, Texas), Jose Noguera (Spring, Texas) and Bennie Lindsey (The Woodlands, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multicycle valve system, including a housing, a port extending radially through the housing, a movable closure to change a condition of the port, a seat connected to the movable closure, a biaser between the housing and the closure, and a DoD object, an igniter in contact with the disappear on demand material, and a signal receive...