ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,185, issued on May 27, was assigned to GOODRICH Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Valve assembly" was invented by Dariusz Sapija (Siechnice, Poland) and Agata Kurowska (Kowale, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve assembly has a housing and a valve shaft rotatable in the housing. A sensor assembly detects the position of the valve shaft. The sensor assembly has an indicator on the housing; and a position sensor on the valve shaft configured to detect a feature of the indicator to determine the position of the valve shaft."

The patent was filed on July 15, 2021, under Application No. 17/376,210.

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