ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,161, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Microswitch based position sensor with harness relief for motorized valve" was invented by Agata Kurowska (Kowale, Poland), Dariusz Sapija (Siechnice, Poland) and Piotr Kostanski (Iwiny, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printed circuit board, PCB, based connector for connecting at least one wire to at least one microswitch in a position sensor for a motorised valve assembly is provided comprising a PCB comprising at least one first through hole and at least one second through hole. The at least one first through hole is configured to receive ...