ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,430, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to COOLER MASTER Co. LTD. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Proportional valve" was invented by Chiu Yu Yeh (Taipei, Taiwan), Wen-Hsien Lin (Taipei, Taiwan) and Wen-Hung Chen (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A proportional valve includes a casing and a valve trim. The casing has at least one fluid inlet, a fluid outlet, at least one first connection passageway, at least one second connection passageway and an accommodating space. The first connection passageway is connected with the fluid inlet. The second connection passageway is connected with the fluid outlet. The valve trim is located in the ac...