US Patent Issued to ABB SCHWEIZ on July 29 for "Robotized manifold system comprising a plurality of bistable valves" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,186, issued on July 29, was assigned to ABB SCHWEIZ AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Robotized manifold system comprising a plurality of bistable valves" was invented by Alexandre Caillot (Muz-la-Chiesaz, France) and Christopher Pierce (Gresy-sur-Aix, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Robotized manifold system including a pipe matrix including a first series of pipes extending according to a first direction and being comprised in a first layer of the pipe matrix and a second series of pipes extending according to a second direction transverse to the first direction and extending in a second layer of the pipe matrix, the pipe matrix be...