US Patent Issued to Mueller International on Aug. 18 for "Expanding systems for break check water dampening" (Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,111, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Mueller International LLC (Atlanta).

"Expanding systems for break check water dampening" was invented by Sean Michael Allen (Chattanooga, Tenn.), Sean Gant (Chattanooga, Tenn.), David Latimore Hughes Jr. (Signal Mountain, Tenn.), Walter Pierce Wojick (Lookout Mountain, Ga.) and Christopher Joseph Duckett (Guntersville, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve member for a break check valve coupled to a pipe system fitting includes a valve member positioned in fluid communication with a piping system and configured to move from an open position to a closed position in response to a break betw...