ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,047, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to GUANGZHOU RISING DRAGON RECREATION INDUSTRIAL Co. LTD. (Guangzhou, China).

"Electric shunt valve with multi-stage flow control" was invented by Ziqin Guo (Guangzhou, China) and Bo Liang (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application provides an electric shunt valve with multi-stage flow control. The brushless DC motor is controlled by a controller to perform phase rotation to drive the connector and the valve core to selectively rotate forward and backward relative to the valve body; by arranging a color wheel to cooperate with a PCB circuit board including a color sensor and ...