ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,870, issued on June 30, was assigned to Flowtrend Inc. (Houston) and Process Innovation-Food Safety LLC (Lodi, Wis.).
"Full-flow sanitary valve" was invented by Jose Galvan (Houston), Sunil Samuel (Houston), Barry Plante (Houston) and Gabe Miller (Lodi, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sanitary valve including a body including at least two body openings; a plug disposed within the body, rotatable around a vertical axis, moveable along the vertical axis within the body, and including a plug top surface and at least two plug openings; a stem including a first stem end attached to the top plug surface and a second stem end; and an ...