ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,036, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Boston Dynamics Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).
"Rotary valve assembly" was invented by Steven D. Potter (Bedford, Mass.), Christopher Everett Thorne (Sommerville, Mass.) and John Aaron Saunders (Arlington, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary valve subassembly includes a spool and a sleeve. The spool is positioned within the sleeve and rotatable relative to the sleeve. Rotating the spool relative to the sleeve can align a scalloped recess formed into an outer side surface of the spool with an inner circumferential recess formed into an inner side surface of the sleeve to fluidly-connect a pressu...