US Patent Issued to BELIMO HOLDING on March 25 for "Three-way-valve" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,047, issued on March 25, was assigned to BELIMO HOLDING AG (Hinwil, Switzerland).

"Three-way-valve" was invented by Andrew James Jukes (Adetswil, Switzerland) and Urs Keller (Hinwil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a three-way valve (1) with an A-port (1A), a B-port (1B), and an AB-port (1AB), a valve body (11) and a regulation body (12). The three-way valve (1) further includes an A-sided valve seat (3A), an AB-sided valve seat (3AB) and an auxiliary valve seat (3'), wherein the A-sided valve seat (3A), the AB-sided valve seat (3AB) and the auxiliary valve seat (3') are each arranged inside the valve body (1...