ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,054, issued on April 8, was assigned to BEIJING RAYMOND-CBE NUCLEAR EQUIPMENT TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE CO LTD. (Beijing).

"Electric valve/door, and control apparatus and method thereof" was invented by Wen Zhou (Beijing), Zhanguo Zhao (Beijing), Dapeng Zhang (Beijing), Gang Zhao (Beijing), Tao Zhu (Beijing) and Zeping Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric valve/door, and a control apparatus and method thereof are provided. The electric valve/door includes a control apparatus. The control apparatus includes an alternating current (AC) asynchronous motor, a transmission device, and a valve driver. The valve driver is con...