US Patent Issued to Nordson on June 3 for "Self flushing flow restrictor for a fluid dispensing system" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,796, issued on June 3, was assigned to Nordson Corp. (Westlake, Ohio).

"Self flushing flow restrictor for a fluid dispensing system" was invented by Jim Bachman (Lorain, Ohio), Madeline Oswalt (Lakewood, Ohio) and Todd Frenk (Amherst, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, a fluid flow restrictor has a housing outlet offset from a housing inlet along a fluid flow direction so as to define a channel therebetween. A rotatable body that is disposed in the channel defines a bore that extends entirely therethrough such that the bore defines a bore inlet and a bore outlet. The flow restrictor has an interior surface disposed in...