US Patent Issued to VAT HOLDING on July 21 for "Vacuum angle valve comprising a pressure sensor" (Swiss, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,243, issued on July 21, was assigned to VAT HOLDING AG (Switzerland).

"Vacuum angle valve comprising a pressure sensor" was invented by Michael Zickar (Goldach, Switzerland), Andreas Wechsel (Sevelen, Switzerland) and Martin Netzer (Bludenz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vacuum valve includes a valve housing having a first port in the direction of a first axis, a second port in the direction of a second axis and a valve seat. The vacuum valve further includes: a valve disk, a drive unit, wherein a controlled displacement of the valve disk along or orthogonally to the first axis is provided by means of the drive unit, and a...