US Patent Issued to Festo on May 12 for "Valve for controlling a fluid flow" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,766, issued on May 12, was assigned to Festo SE & Co. KG (Esslingen, Germany).

"Valve for controlling a fluid flow" was invented by Eduard Usinger (Aichwald, Germany) and Eduard Wenske (Kornwestheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve for controlling fluid flows, including a valve housing in which a control bore extends along a bore axis, in which a first valve member is moveably accommodated along the bore axis between a first open position and a first closed position for a first fluid channel and in which a second valve member is moveably accommodated along the bore axis between a second open position and a second closed...