ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,242, issued on July 21, was assigned to ZHEJIANG DUNAN ARTIFICIAL ENVIRONMENT Co. LTD. (Shaoxing, China).

"Electronic expansion valve" was invented by Yuchen He (Shaoxing, China), Guanjun Xu (Shaoxing, China), Yonghao Chen (Shaoxing, China), Jun Zhao (Shaoxing, China), Hongfeng Huang (Shaoxing, China), Tonghui Liu (Shaoxing, China) and Qiubo He (Shaoxing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an electronic expansion valve, which includes: a valve body having an accommodating cavity and a valve port, and the valve port communicates with the accommodating cavity; a guide sleeve, which is disposed in the a...