ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,952, issued on March 3, was assigned to NORMA GERMANY GMBH (Maintal, Germany).

"Valve for a fluid line of a vehicle" was invented by Viktor Stoll (Maintal, Germany), Gary Williams (Maintal, Germany), David Peterson (Maintal, Germany) and Daniel Kintea (Maintal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve for a fluid line of a vehicle has a fluid channel, a spring element and support element with a sealing element. The support element is movably arranged in the fluid channel, the fluid channel being configured to guide a fluid between a valve opening and a fluid line connected to the valve. The spring element is configured to push ...