ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,862, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ETO MAGNETIC GmbH (Stockach, Germany).
"Hydraulic valve spool through which a fluid can flow, bidirectional control valve, and method" was invented by Sebastian Bolling (Uhldingen-Muhlhofen, Germany), Timo Rigling (Moos, Germany) and Luca Veser (Radolfzell, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flow-through hydraulic valve slide (14a-b), in particular for a control valve (10a-b) for regulating damping characteristics of shock absorbers, has at least one hydraulic link valve (12a-b) for influencing a flow-through of the valve slide (14a-b), wherein the hydraulic link valve (12a-b) comprises at ...