ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,193, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Fluid flow valve and methods of operating thereof" was invented by David Ishikawa (Mountain View, Calif.), Sumedh Dattatraya Acharya (Karnataka, India), Arun Nagarajan (Georgetown, Texas) and Ming Xu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a fluid flow valve. The fluid flow valve includes a housing configured to receive a flow of fluid. The fluid flow valve further includes a first valve portion configured to proportionally control the flow of fluid through the housing. The fluid flow...