ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,072, issued on May 19, was assigned to Aptco Technologies GmbH (Berlin).

"Control device for regulating the pressure of a fluid" was invented by Kees Jan van der Kamp (Ottendorf-Okrilla, Germany) and Marcus Kruschinski (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device for controlling the pressure of a fluid, and a porometer that includes the control device. A regulating unit includes a pipe system for conveying a fluid and a regulating device associated with the pipe system. The regulating unit includes a first pressure regulator and a second pressure regulator, and the first and second pressure regulators each generate a regula...