ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,307, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to MACK & SCHNEIDER GMBH (Filderstadt, Germany).
"Valve device having a hold-down element" was invented by Steffen Bachofer (Filderstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve device has a valve housing having at least two connection openings, that open into a chamber of the valve housing, and closed by a cover, having a sealing disk unit, separating the two chambers and having as sealing disks a fixed disk held non-rotatably in the valve housing and a rotating disk mounted rotatably around an axis of rotation. The sealing disks resting axially on one another each have a flow opening, to ...