ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,103, issued on May 26, was assigned to FUZHUN PRECISION TOOLING (JIASHAN) Co. LTD. (Jiaxing, China).

"Vacuum switching valve and suction system using vacuum switching valve" was invented by Xue-Yang Lu (Kunshan, China), Jin-Feng Zhang (Kunshan, China), Huo-Zhong Wu (Kunshan, China), Hao Yang (Kunshan, China), Sheng-Rong Zhang (Kunshan, China), Ben Wu (Kunshan, China), Guang-Ke Suo (Kunshan, China), Xiao-Jin Zhong (Kunshan, China) and Nian Liu (Kunshan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vacuum switching valve and a suction system having the same. The vacuum switching valve comprises: a valve body, comprising a first end and a seco...