US Patent Issued to Coulson Aviation (USA) on July 7 for "Constant flow rate regulating valve assembly for an aerial firefighting bucket" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,228, issued on July 7, was assigned to Coulson Aviation (USA) Inc (Portland, Ore.).

"Constant flow rate regulating valve assembly for an aerial firefighting bucket" was invented by Britton Coulson (Port Alberni, Canada), Brian McDonald (Parksville, Canada), David Lawrence (Courtenay, Canada) and Mike McClellan (Port Alberni, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve assembly for a firefighting bucket includes a base plate having an opening, a valve body configured to seal the opening of the base plate, and a linear actuator coupled to the valve body and configured to displace the valve body. Valve control systems direct the releas...