ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,514, issued on Aug. 25.
"Precision opening and closing mechanism for valves" was invented by Jordi Chaves Garcia (Barcelona, Spain) and Juan Miguel Chaves Garcia (Barcelona, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Opening and closing mechanism which has a power supply (1), a rotation direction setter (2), a control unit (3), which is connected to the rotation direction setter (2), a valve actuator motor (5), which is connected to the control unit in which one of the connections is for sending a BREAK instruction from the control unit (3) to the motor (5), a signal which is sent when a shutdown occurs due to over-torque inferred from the...