US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Sept. 8 for "Ball for a valve assembly" (Arizona, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,769, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Ball for a valve assembly" was invented by Igor Strashny (Tucson, Ariz.) and Vinay Jadhav (Peoria, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ball for a valve assembly, a valve assembly comprising such a ball, a machine comprising such a valve assembly and a method of operating such a valve assembly. The ball comprises a first bore for communicating fluid through the ball and a second bore for communicating fluid through the ball. A bore valve is located in the first bore for selectively enabling fluid communication through the first bore"

The patent was filed on F...