ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,185, issued on June 30, was assigned to Vitesco Technologies GmbH (Regensberg, Germany).

"Distribution device and liquid distribution actuator" was invented by Matthias Fischer (Ringgau, Germany), Wolf Goetze (Rotenburg, Germany) and Bjoern Bartholmai (Sontra, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributing device having a housing having an inlet connection and a plurality of outlet connections, and an electromotively drivable, rotatably adjustable distributor which is arranged therein in the form of a disk, on which a liquid receiving and liquid guiding device is formed. The distributing disk is rotatably adjustable into defin...