ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,919, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to HANON SYSTEMS (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Flow chamber shaft for disc coolant valves" was invented by Emma Michelle Grissom (Howell, Mich.), Jason Dale Perkins (Dexter, Mich.), Edward William Sanders III (Monroe, Mich.) and Sunil Kumar Harihar Onkarachari (Mississauga, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary disc valve includes a rotatable assembly having a drive shaft with a flow control wall. The flow control wall includes an inner surface and an outer surface. The inner surface of defines a flow chamber within the drive shaft. A rotary disc is coupled to the drive shaft and is configured...