US Patent Issued to Sierra Space on June 2 for "Debris-tolerant sealing valve" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,538, issued on June 2, was assigned to Sierra Space Corp. (Louisville, Colo.).

"Debris-tolerant sealing valve" was invented by Rick Burkholder (Broomfield, Colo.), Nathan Haggerty (Broomfield, Colo.), Jerry Chang (Broomfield, Colo.), Jared Koch (Broomfield, Colo.) and Kevin Rogers (Broomfield, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, devices, and systems are described for a system including a rotation motor configured to rotate a valve seal holder, the valve seal holder having at least one pass-through interface and closed-off interface, a camshaft coupled to the valve seal holder, and a controller communicatively coupled to the ...