ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,760, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to BUERKERT WERKE GMBH & Co. KG (Ingelfingen, Germany).
"Method of operating a diaphragm valve and diaphragm valve" was invented by Peter Krippner (Ingelfingen, Germany), Sagar Agarwal (Ingelfingen, Germany) and Franziska Maier (Ingelfingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a diaphragm valve is specified. The diaphragm valve comprises a fluid housing having a valve seat formed therein, a diaphragm which cooperates with the valve seat to open or close a flow path through the fluid housing, and at least two sensors from the following group: a capacitive sensor, which is arr...