US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Dec. 23 for "Valve device, valve housing and universal valve housing" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,082, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Valve device, valve housing and universal valve housing" was invented by Manuel Kellner (Alsfeld, Germany), Jan Muller (Wurzburg, Germany), Timo Rohner (Vogtsburg im Kaiserstuhl, Germany), Melanie Sindel (Nuremberg, Germany) and Albert Sbongk (Niederstetten, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a valve apparatus having a first pressure compensation valve, a first, gas-tight, cap-like membrane device, and a gas-permeable, moisture-permeable, and yet water-impermeable second membrane device. The first pressure compensation valve, in parti...