US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 8 for "Valve body assembly having valve member" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,764, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Valve body assembly having valve member" was invented by Steven Anatole Frait (Milan, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve body assembly that includes a valve body, a pump and a valve member. The valve body has multiple valve bores and hydraulic passages. The pump is coupled to the valve body and cooperates with the valve body to define a fluid circuit that is in communication with one or more of the hydraulic passages. The pump is configured to pump hydraulic fluid through the fluid circuit and into one or more of the hydraulic passages....