US Patent Issued to Duanlong Wu on Jan. 13 for "Ceramic valve core assembly and a self-cleaning ceramic valve core" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,308, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Duanlong Wu (Xiamen, China).

"Ceramic valve core assembly and a self-cleaning ceramic valve core" was invented by Songgen Zhang (Xiamen, China), Yuanfa Su (Xiamen, China) and Jiaming Hong (Xiamen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ceramic valve core assembly including a movable valve plate which is rotatable and slidably attached on a fixed valve plate, the fixed valve plate has a first cold water inlet, a first hot water inlet, and a first water outlet. The movable valve plate has a first water inlet and a second water outlet in communication with the first water outlet. The first water i...