US Patent Issued to Vitesco Technologies on July 21 for "Valve pump unit" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,170, issued on July 21, was assigned to Vitesco Technologies GmbH (Regensburg, Germany).

"Valve pump unit" was invented by Marius Muller (Darmstadt, Germany), Sebastian Brettner (Burglengenfeld, Germany), Manuel Dillinger (Kelheim, Germany), Markus Feulner (Ensdorf, Germany), Gerhard Eser (Hemau, Germany), Karl Martin Fritsch (Frankfurt, Germany), Christof Heeger (Hessen, Germany) and Konstantin Bart (Bad Nauheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve/pump unit having a single electric motor for driving at least one pump stage and for adjusting a multiway valve, a reduction gearbox, which is driven by the electric motor, at ...