ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,683, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to DANFOSS A/S (Nordborg, Denmark).

"Flow control valve" was invented by Jinfeng Bao (Nordborg, Denmark), Jiang Wu (Nordborg, Denmark) and Anders Pedersen (Middelfart, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flow control valve (1) includes a valve body (2), which is provided with a valve hole (21), a guide hole (22) and a lateral hole (23) that are in communication with each other, and a valve core (3), which is located in the guide hole (22), and can move in an axial direction of the guide hole (22) to control the opening and closing of the valve hole (21), thereby allowing or blocking the flowing...