US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Sept. 1 for "Valve assembly, pressure vessel system, vehicle, and method for discharging fuel" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,659, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Valve assembly, pressure vessel system, vehicle, and method for discharging fuel" was invented by Joerg Hennecke (Haar, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve assembly for a fuel pressure vessel system includes: a fuel line; a shutoff valve at the fuel line, which shutoff valve is to be manually actuated; a discharge opening fluidically connected to the fuel line; and a closure element. The shutoff valve is designed to prevent a movement of the closure element from a first position, in which the closure element closes the discharge opening, into a ...