ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,752, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to ZHEJIANG SANHUA AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENTS Co. LTD. (Hangzhou, China).

"Control valve" was invented by Lixin Wang (Hangzhou, China), Yongpin Lu (Hangzhou, China), Haijun Zhu (Hangzhou, China), Long Lin (Hangzhou, China) and Yun Wang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control valve includes a valve body, a first valve core, a second valve core, a first drive shaft, and a second drive shaft. The first valve core is in transmission connection with a first drive member via the first drive shaft; the second valve core is in transmission connection with a second drive member via the second ...