US Patent Issued to Mueller International on Sept. 8 for "Stent springs for repairing pipes" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,799, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Mueller International LLC.

"Stent springs for repairing pipes" was invented by Aurelian Ioan Furcoiu (Oswego, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stent spring for repairing a pipe includes a substantially tubular mesh structure defining a first structure end and a second structure end opposite the first structure end, the substantially tubular mesh structure comprising a plurality of strands comprising a spring material, wherein the stent spring is expandable and compressible between an expanded configuration and a compressed configuration; and a void extending through the substantially tubul...