US Patent Issued to Bray International on Oct. 20 for "Valve with load cell" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,470, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Bray International Inc. (Houston).

"Valve with load cell" was invented by Michael Kitchens (Houston), Jim Schmidt (Houston), Brindesh Dhruva (Katy, Texas) and Jason Dalenberg (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments disclosed herein relate to a method for preserving the integrity of a packing and the integrity a stem of a valve, having the steps of providing a gland ring mounted above the packing surrounding the stem; providing a gland retainer mounted above the gland ring, wherein the gland retainer is secured to the valve with one or more fasteners, wherein the gland retainer i...