ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,188, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Valve device" was invented by Shingo Sato (Kariya-city, Japan), Yuto Sato (Kariya-city, Japan), Masato Ichikawa (Kariya-city, Japan), Akihiko Goto (Kariya-city, Japan), Tadashi Ikemoto (Kariya-city, Japan), Ryo Nomura (Kariya-city, Japan), Ryuki Tsuji (Kariya-city, Japan), Takahito Suzuki (Kariya-city, Japan) and Shogo Kanzaki (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A housing has a housing main body and an outlet port. The housing main body includes a cylindrical housing inner wall that defines an internal space therein. The outlet port fluidly conn...