ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,671, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"System for regulating the flow of a fluid" was invented by Lena Schlittenbauer (Altmannstein, Germany), Klaus Ternovan (Oberostendorf, Germany) and Herbert Tschentscher (Riedenburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for regulating a flow of a fluid, wherein the system comprises a regulating device and a central axis, wherein the regulating device is adapted to establish at least one through-passage opening for the fluid, wherein a normal vector of a cross sectional area of the at least one through-passage opening is oriented parallel to t...