ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,925, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to DANFOSS A/S (Nordborg, Denmark).
"Flow control valve" was invented by Jinfeng Bao (Nordborg, Denmark), Jiang Wu (Nordborg, Denmark) and Anders Pedersen (Middelfart, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flow control valve includes a valve body (21), the valve body (21) having a valve seat part (211) provided therein, with a valve port (112) formed in the valve seat part (211); a spool (12), the spool (12) being axially movable to open or close the valve port (112), with a pressure-equalizing channel (121) provided in the spool (12), the pressure-equalizing channel connecting the valve port (11...