ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,347, issued on July 1, was assigned to Hawe Hydraulik SE (Aschheim, Germany).

"Housing unit for a hydraulic valve and hydraulic valve" was invented by Engelbert Zwingler (Aschheim, Germany) and Thomas Ott (Aschheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A housing unit for a hydraulic valve with an actuating device includes a first housing part with an internal thread and a second housing part with an external thread. A valve piston is disposed in the first housing part and an actuating element of the actuating device is disposed in the second housing part. The actuating element is operatively connected to the valve piston in the axia...