US Patent Issued to Sullivan Process Controls on March 3 for "Eccentric process control valve" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,934, issued on March 3, was assigned to Sullivan Process Controls LLC (Houston).

"Eccentric process control valve" was invented by Gifford Z. Decker (Spring, Texas) and Grant T. Goodwin (Richmond, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process control valve can include a valve body having a fluid inlet, a fluid outlet and a valve seat disposed fluidically between the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet; a valve stem having a longitudinal axis, a first end and a second end longitudinally opposite the first end; and a valve member disposed within the valve body and configured to selectively sealingly engage the valve seat for controlling ...