ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,049, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to HANON SYSTEMS EFP DEUTSCHLAND GMBH (Bad Homburg V.D. Hohe, Germany).

"Device for regulating a flow and distributing a fluid circuit as well as a conveying unit with the device" was invented by Jan Hinrichs (Friedrichsdorf, Germany) and Tilo Schafer (Daubach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for regulating a flow and distributing a fluid in a fluid circuit. The device has a housing with port elements and at least two disc elements, which are each formed with at least one passage opening. The disc elements are arranged at a distance from each other in a direction of a longitudina...