ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,489, issued on May 5, was assigned to STACCATO TECHNOLOGIES AB (Haninge, Sweden).
"Electromechanical valve and a sorting manifold comprising a plurality of stacked such valves" was invented by Per-Ove Johansson (Trangsund, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electromechanical valve (10), comprising in a housing (20), a valve mechanism. The valve mechanism comprises a core (34) of magnetizable material surrounded by a coil (32) to be supplied with excitation current, a stack (36) of plates of magnetic material secured in a first end thereof, and a valve seat (38). The stack (36) of plates is provided in a space between the core (34...