US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on July 21 for "Valve assembly" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,237, issued on July 21, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Valve assembly" was invented by Michael Henker (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a valve assembly, including a housing, a valve body, a drive train assembly, a first magnetic component, a driving component, and a second magnetic component. The housing defining a first cavity and a second cavity which are independent of each other. The valve body is disposed in the first cavity. The drive train assembly is disposed in the first cavity to drive the valve body to rotate. The first magnetic component is disposed in t...