ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,763, issued on May 12, was assigned to Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Modular air valve system" was invented by Francis P. Marocchini (Somers, Conn.) and Robert DeFelice (South Windsor, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with at least one aspect of this disclosure, a modular valve system includes, at least a first valve. The first valve can be configured to connect to one or more additional valves. The first valve includes, a first housing having a first inlet and a first outlet with a cylindrical flow path through the housing defined between the first inlet and the first outlet along a flow axis, where ...