ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,304, issued on July 22, was assigned to EAGLE INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Solenoid valve" was invented by Tadanobu Kawato (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Iwanaga (Tokyo) and Masaki Hoshi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solenoid valve includes: a valve body; a sleeve which the valve body is accommodated; a solenoid casing connected to the sleeve on a first end side in an axial direction of the solenoid valve, and is closed on a second end side opposed to the first end side in the axial direction; a solenoid molded body in the solenoid casing; a yoke including a tubular portion inside the solenoid molded body, a flange portion projecting rad...