ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,043, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to BYD Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Electric valve" was invented by Zhongbo Feng (Shenzhen, China), Ju Jin (Shenzhen, China), Fugang Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Haijian Sha (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an electric valve, including: a valve seat, the valve seat having an end surface and a slot; a valve body, a portion of the valve body penetrating in the valve seat, and another portion of the valve body protruding from the end surface; a coil portion sleeved over the valve body, the coil portion and the slot being respectively located on two sides of ...