US Patent Issued to ECO Holding 1 on Oct. 27 for "Valve assembly" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,756, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to ECO Holding 1 GmbH (Marktheidenfeld, Germany).

"Valve assembly" was invented by Stephan Wanner (Biberach, Germany) and Max Podszun (Frickenhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve assembly with a drive unit which includes a rotor and a drive shaft, as well as a valve unit which includes a valve shaft and a closing body, wherein the drive shaft and the valve shaft are connected to one another by a coupling element in order to compensate for an axial and/or angular offset. The coupling element includes at least one transverse groove in which a transverse tongue of the drive shaft or...