ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,116, issued on June 3, was assigned to JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG (Murten, Switzerland).
"Multi-ports valve and thermal management system having same" was invented by Anbang Chen (Shen Zhen, China), Xiaoyu Liu (Shen Zhen, China), Guanyin Liang (Shen Zhen, China) and Ruifeng Qin (Hong Kong).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-port valve includes a valve housing and a valve core. The valve housing includes a plurality of ports arranged in a circumferential direction. All the ports are grouped into at least two port groups. Each of the port groups includes a main port and a plurality of sub-ports. The valve core is rotatably mou...