ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,020, issued on March 17, was assigned to RESIDEO LLC (Golden Valley, Minn.).
"Inlet controlled regulating valve" was invented by Dominik Ernst (Mosbach, Germany), Ralf Hilbers (Waldbrunn, Germany) and Michael Ackermann (Mosbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a pressure reducing valve includes a valve body defining a defining a flow path and a restricting element within the flow path. A sensing element is configured to modify a position of the restricting element in the flow path. A pressure chamber is configured to transmit a force to the sensing element based on the pressure of a fluid within the pressure...