ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,845, issued on June 24.

"Universal actuator valve systems and methods thereof" was invented by Mark Schiesser (Ontario, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system initiates a start of at least one of a flow of a fluid into one section of an actuator or an exhaust of the fluid from another section of the actuator to move a piston from a current to a destination position. The system also initiates a stop of at least one of the flow of the fluid into the one section of the actuator or the exhaust of the fluid from the another section of the actuator no later than when the current position is at the destination position and before at l...