ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,366, issued on June 23, was assigned to ELAFLEX HIBY GmbH & Co. KG (Hamburg, Germany).
"Main valve insert for a tap valve" was invented by Stefan Kunter (Hamburg, Germany), Michael Wehner (Hamburg, Germany), Torben Schorck (Hamburg, Germany) and Wolfgang Artmeier (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A main valve insert (20) for a tap valve (10) for dispensing a fluid, having a channel (13) extending through the main valve insert (20), a valve seat (21) designed to cooperate with a main valve body (14) of the tap valve (10) to control a fluid flow through the channel (13), and an external thread (22) for connecting the mai...