ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,776, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Festo SE & Co. KG (Esslingen, Germany).
"Safety valve device" was invented by Rainer Spreitzenbarth (Esslingen, Germany) and Thomas Schaal (Weinstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safety valve device with a safety valve including a movable valve member and an actuating device by means of which it can be selectively set to a first switching state or to a second switching state. The safety valve module has several module connections, which are module input connections designed to be set to a plurality of different control switching states by a control valve controlling the supply and di...