US Patent Issued to ACS AIR COMPRESSOR SYSTEME on March 18 for "Method for determining the degree of wear of a valve, and apparatus for carrying out said method" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,188, issued on March 18, was assigned to ACS AIR COMPRESSOR SYSTEME GMBH (Gmund am Tegernsee, Germany).

"Method for determining the degree of wear of a valve, and apparatus for carrying out said method" was invented by Markus Krapfl (Prutting, Germany), Stefan Thiel (Rosenheim, Germany), Klaus Aurich (Gmund am Teqernsee, Germany) and Sven Aurich (Gmund am Teqernsee, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining the degree of wear of a valve, the degree of wear of the valve being dependent on the degree of wear of an operating element that is made of an expandable material and performs a mechanical movement each tim...