ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,432, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Festo SE & Co. KG (Esslingen, Germany).
"Fluid device" was invented by Gebhard Munz (Schorndorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid device has at least one valve unit and at least one recirculation unit, each having a fluid chamber, which channels are fluidically connected to one another via at least one connection channel. The at least one feed channel discharges into the fluid chamber of the valve unit and a discharge channel discharges into the fluid chamber of the recirculation unit. Each of the fluid chambers is delimited by an elastically deformable diaphragm, and the valve un...