ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,099, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Bray International Inc. (Houston).
"Multi-functional valve travel stop" was invented by Evan Apostolou (Houston), Patrick O'Connell (Houston) and Parthasarathy Chinnasamy (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve having a valve body comprising a valve stem assembled to the valve body, the valve stem connected to a disc, a gland retainer connected to the valve body, wherein the valve body and the gland retainer define a packing chamber through which the valve stem is assembled, a travel stop connected to the valve stem and retained in the gland retainer, a first o-ring between the valve st...