US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Sept. 29 for "Valve assembly and system used to control flow rate of a fluid" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,443, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Valve assembly and system used to control flow rate of a fluid" was invented by Daniel T. Mudd (Freemont, Calif.), Andrew Staudt (Freemont, Calif.), Mohamed Saleem (Freemont, Calif.), Sukhjeet Singh (Freemont, Calif.) and Thomas Kotowski (Freemont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mass flow meter includes a flow pathway through the mass flow meter, wherein the flow pathway comprises a first cavity and a second cavity. The mass flow meter also includes a laminar flow element adjacent to the first cavity and the second cavity, wherein the first...