US Patent Issued to Cameron International on June 30 for "Adjustable bi-directional throttling choke valve" (Irish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,179, issued on June 30, was assigned to Cameron International Corp. (Houston).

"Adjustable bi-directional throttling choke valve" was invented by Declan Elliott (Longford, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A choke gate valve includes a housing that defines a fluid bore and a gate with multiple throttling orifices. The gate is configured to move within the housing between a first throttle position in which the gate extends across the fluid bore to position a first throttling orifice of the multiple throttling orifices in the fluid bore to throttle a fluid flow through the fluid bore and a second throttle position in which the gat...