US Patent Issued to KITZ on March 3 for "Valve" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,941, issued on March 3, was assigned to KITZ Corp. (Tokyo).

"Valve" was invented by Masazumi Funato (Tokyo), Mitsuru Hosokawa (Tokyo), Tetsuya Watanabe (Tokyo), Osamu Watanabe (Tokyo) and Hisashi Shimizu (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve (10) in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes a body (1) having a space in which a stem (3) and a ball (4) are housed, wherein an inner lid body (60) fixing the ball (4) in the space liquid-tightly partitions the space into a part in which the stem (3) is housed and a part in which the ball (4) is housed."

The patent was filed on April 23, 2024, under...