ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,382, issued on April 15, was assigned to KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUER NUTZFAHRZEUGE GMBH (Munich).

"Valve device for a system, in particular a braking system for a vehicle, and system, in particular braking system for a vehicle" was invented by Michael Belling-Hoffmann (Renningen, Germany), Alexander Matt (Bruchsal, Germany), Christian Kaufmann (Sindelfingen, Germany) and Dominikus Drayss (Wallduern, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve-device (VD) for a vehicle-braking-system (VBS), and a VBS. A VD for a VBS, having first/second control-units (CU), which are electrically connectable to the VD, which includes a valve-unit (VU) ...