ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,278, issued on April 21, was assigned to Dresser LLC (Houston).
"Using pressure to monitor position of components on a control valve" was invented by Manojkumar Velusamy (Coimbatore, India) and Jayaganesh Nataraj (Coimbatore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position monitoring system is configured for use on control valves and other flow controls. These configurations include a motion sensitive unit, for example, a flexible tube with one end that can move in conjunction with a valve stem on the flow control. The flexible tube may hold synthetic oil. Another end of the tube may couple with a pressure senor. In use, this senor ...