US Patent Issued to FCA US on Nov. 25 for "Hydraulic control unit valve porting, routing, checkball, and orifice integration with additive manufacturing" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,587, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Hydraulic control unit valve porting, routing, checkball, and orifice integration with additive manufacturing" was invented by John N Henley III (Auburn Hills, Mich.), Richard G Whalen (Macomb, Mich.), Zhe Xie (Rochester, Mich.) and Mark A Levine (White Lake, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additive manufactured (AM) hydraulic control assembly includes a first AM hydraulic passage having a first tubular wall defining a first fluid passage, a second AM hydraulic passage integrally formed with the first AM hydraulic passage and having a second tubular wa...