ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,775, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Buerkert Werke Gmbh & Co. KG (Ingelfingen, Germany).

"Modular system and method of manufacturing valves, assembly, and valve" was invented by Werner Eurich (Ingelfingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular system having an assembly for manufacturing valves of two different valve types including a valve basic unit having a housing, an actuator base, and a piston/spindle unit with a piston displaceable in the housing. An end face of the piston and an end face of the actuator base define a pressure chamber. The actuator base and the housing delimit a dead space chamber on a side of th...