US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on May 19 for "Valve for supplying and purging lubricants from systems" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,292, issued on May 19, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Valve for supplying and purging lubricants from systems" was invented by Stephen Dale Herd (Durham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve includes a housing and a plunger. The housing defines a chamber, a set of ports, and a set of conduits. The plunger is disposed within the chamber and is configured to be moved to an actuated state in which the set of ports are fluidly coupled to each other through a first section of the chamber to define a first passageway and the set of conduits are fluidly coupled to each other through a second section of the ...