ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,276, issued on April 21, was assigned to DANFOSS A/S (Nordborg, Denmark).

"Stepper motor valve, coil assembly housing, valve house assembly and valve block for the stepper motor valve" was invented by Sigurd Larsen (Krusa, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coil assembly housing for housing the actuator of a stepper motor valve includes a snap feature for snap fitting the coil assembly housing to a valve house assembly, wherein the snap feature includes at least one protrusion pointing radially inward of the coil assembly housing, wherein the protrusion is provided for interacting with a recess of the valve house assembly, and...