US Patent Issued to Hella on June 24 for "Multi-way valve for a motor vehicle and method for operating a multi-way valve for a motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,901, issued on June 24, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).

"Multi-way valve for a motor vehicle and method for operating a multi-way valve for a motor vehicle" was invented by Sebastian Tiemeyer (Dortmund, Germany), Frank Bewermeyer (Paderborn, Germany) and Dominik Niess (Selm, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-way valve for a motor vehicle, having a housing, in which a lower and upper chamber are disposed one above the other along an axis of rotation and are separated from each other by a separating wall. A lower valve body is disposed in the lower chamber for rotation about the axis of rotation...