ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,048, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to MIKUNI Corp. (Tokyo).
"Mixing valve" was invented by Hiroshi Kato (Odawara, Japan) and Hideaki Kashiwagura (Odawara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mixing valve includes: a housing with a valve chamber formed therein; and a rotor rotatably inserted into the valve chamber, a first peripheral wall of the housing is provided with a first inlet port at a first opening to the valve chamber and a second inlet port at a second opening to the valve chamber, a second peripheral wall of the rotor is provided with a first inflow pipe, a second inflow pipe, and a mixing pipe with a mixing flow path...