US Patent Issued to Watts Regulator on Sept. 1 for "Retention clip for a valve shaft adapter" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,672, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Watts Regulator Co. (North Andover, Mass.).

"Retention clip for a valve shaft adapter" was invented by Markus Kroll (Dattenberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A retention clip secures a valve shaft adapter collar to a valve actuator. The retention clip includes a central bar having opposing arms extending therefrom. Each arm includes a resilient spring clip junction attached to the central bar, a lug coupled to the resilient spring clip for receiving pliers, and an end extending from the lug and configured for insertion through a hole in the valve shaft adapter collar into a pocket of ...