ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,880, issued on July 28, was assigned to Festo SE & Co. KG (Esslingen, Germany).
"Valve module system" was invented by Martin Maichl (Salach, Germany) and Martin Kilb (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve module system for supplying compressed air to a compressed air consumer, in which valve modules are provided with differently configured channel plates in order to enter into fluidic communication with fluid channels of a support plate. At least one fluid channel configured in the support plate, which opens out at a coupling surface of the support plate, is associated with a sensor from the group of...