US Patent Issued to Festo on Dec. 23 for "Valve module, valve arrangement and method" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,088, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Festo SE & Co. KG (Esslingen, Germany).

"Valve module, valve arrangement and method" was invented by Eduard Wenske (Kornwestheim, Germany) and Gregor Appt (Esslingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve module (1) for mounting on a valve module carrier (2), the valve module (1) being of plate-shaped design, extending in a longitudinal direction (x), and being subdivided into a plurality of longitudinal sections adjoining one another in the longitudinal direction (x), the valve module having, as a first longitudinal section, a main valve section (8) with a first main valve (9), and, a...