ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,158, issued on March 11, was assigned to I-SEP (France).
"Control valve for a liquid circulating in a flexible tube" was invented by Adrien Fiorino (Nantes, France) and Sylvain Picot (Caluire Et Cuire, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an automatic valve for regulating a flow rate of liquid intended to circulate in a flexible tube, comprising: a cam system (23) mounted moveably on a base and rotationally around an axis of rotation, a bearing part (24) translationally mounted on the base, arranged to be translationally moved as a result of a rotational movement of the cam system (23), and comprising a com...