ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,466, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Automatic Switch Co. (Florham Park, N.J.).
"Installation integrity detector for solenoid valve" was invented by Peter Lindsay (Wantage, N.J.), Frank A. Ferrarese (West Caldwell, N.J.) and Michael A. Brendel (Morristown, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solenoid valve can include a valve body and an actuator. The actuator can include an actuator housing, a coil disposed in the actuator housing and a core tube extending from the valve body through and beyond the actuator housing when the actuator is properly installed on the valve body. A monitoring assembly can include a target on the core ...