ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,563, issued on March 24, was assigned to NEOPERL GMBH (Mullheim, Germany).
"Sanitary valve" was invented by Jacek Kowol (Gundelfingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sanitary valve having a main valve with a diaphragm movable between closed and open positions. The main valve is in an inner housing rotatably mounted in an outer housing. The inner housing has a first valve opening connected to a first valve opening in the outer housing to form a valve outlet. The inner housing has a second valve opening arranged on the outside relative to the valve outlet and is paired with a second valve opening in the outer housing forming...