ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,269, issued on April 21, was assigned to ZHEJIANG YINLUN MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Taizhou, China).

"Multi-way valve" was invented by Jun Ma (Taizhou, China), Kaixing Chen (Taizhou, China), Junli Lan (Taizhou, China) and Wenxi Wang (Taizhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-way valve is provided. The multi-way valve includes a valve body and a valve core rotatably installed in the valve body. The valve body is provided with nine openings, the valve core is provided with a plurality of channels for matching with the nine openings, and the nine openings are capable of matching with the plurality of channels of the valve core to ...