ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,999, issued on July 21, was assigned to Neoperl GmbH (Mullheim, Germany).
"Fluidic assembly, corresponding use, and fitting" was invented by Oliver Denzler (Bottmingen, Switzerland), Fabian Wildfang (Mullheim, Germany), Holger Schurle (Mullheim, Germany), Marc Tempel (Freiburg, Germany) and Claudio Cupelli (Freiburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sanitary fitting (1) having a fitting housing (2) in which a valve (5) is disposed, an outflow pipe (11) in which an outflow piece (13) is disposed and which is connected to the fitting housing (2), and an outflow hose (15) which fluidically connects the outflow piece (13) to the ...