ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,257, issued on March 31, was assigned to Emerson Process Management Regulator Technologies Inc. (McKinney, Texas).

"Pressure regulators with pivotable valve disk assemblies" was invented by Timothy Ryan Hawkins (McKinney, Texas), Andrew Kislak Da Costa (Plano, Texas), Ruben Longoria (Little Elm, Texas), Justin Lane Masias (McKinney, Texas), Douglas J. Scheffler (McKinney, Texas) and James Chester Hawkins (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pressure regulators with pivotable valve disk assemblies are disclosed. An example pressure regulator includes a valve body defining a fluid passageway between an inlet and an outlet, a s...