ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,663, issued on Sept. 1.
"Ball valve with flexible arm and detents for maintaining valve open or closed" was invented by Brett R. Burdick (Knoxville, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ball valve for low pressure air flow environments that locks in the open and closed positions and can be operated with one hand. The ball valve includes a valve body having an aperture located on the valve body and a ledge adjacent the aperture and extending outwardly from the valve body; a ball including a stem positionable in the aperture for rotatably positioning the ball relative to the valve body between an open condition and a closed condition...