US Patent Issued to VAT Holding on Oct. 27 for "Valve" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,759, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to VAT Holding AG (Haag, Switzerland).

"Valve" was invented by Christian Prentner (Altach, Austria), Emanuel Bach (Gofis, Austria), Tamer Meseli (Mader, Austria), Felix Karu (Altach, Austria) and Ronald Pschenitschnigg (Rankweil, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve (1) having a valve rod (2) and a closure element (3), which is arranged on the valve rod (2), for closing a valve opening (4). The closure element (3) can be moved between a closing position and a maximum open position by the valve rod (2) solely in a linear manner in directions (5) that are parallel to the longitudinal exten...