US Patent Issued to Skoberne on Feb. 24 for "Non-return valve for a flow channel through which a flow of air flows" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,242, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Skoberne GmbH (Pfungstadt, Germany).

"Non-return valve for a flow channel through which a flow of air flows" was invented by Thomas Schuck (Pfungstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-return valve for a flow channel has a housing and an outflow opening that can be closed by a pivoting blocking flap. The blocking flap has a dome-shaped bulge. An opening edge of the outflow opening has a hinge region for the blocking flap that transitions into a blocking flap stop region circumferentially opposite the hinge region. The blocking flap stop region is offset so that the opening edge has ...