ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,845, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to ZHEJIANG SANHUA AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENTS Co. LTD. (Hangzhou, China).

"Fluid control assembly" was invented by Xiangyu Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Yongxiang Tan (Hangzhou, China) and Longbin Li (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid control assembly is provided. A connecting member comprises a flexible section and a rigid section; a stator assembly comprises a coil assembly and a first connecting portion; a coil of the coil assembly is electrically connected to the first connecting portion; a circuit board comprises a second connecting portion; the rigid section comprises a first sectio...