US Patent Issued to Gunderson on Sept. 15 for "Railway tank car having a discharge valve assembly and a dis-engageable valve handle assembly coupled to the discharge valve assembly" (Oregon, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,149, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Gunderson LLC (Lake Oswego, Ore.).

"Railway tank car having a discharge valve assembly and a dis-engageable valve handle assembly coupled to the discharge valve assembly" was invented by Lukas P. Miller (Newberg, Ore.), Scott J. Hart (Milwaukie, Ore.), Ben Miller (St. Louis) and Thomas Stevens (Dardenne Prairie, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A railway tank car having a dis-engageable valve handle assembly configured to selectively engage, lock, and actuate a discharge valve assembly connected to a tank of railway tank car, wherein the dis-engageable valve handle assembly is configured to...