ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,435, issued on March 4, was assigned to Power Packer North America Inc. (Westfield, Wis.).
"Exhaust gas recirculation valve assembly" was invented by Mark Jason Boswell (Corning, Iowa) and Timothy Garritt House (Urbandale, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve assembly and a method of assembling a valve assembly. The valve assembly may be an exhaust gas recirculation valve assembly and may include a sealing assembly to inhibit flow of gas from a flow passage into an electronics housing. The sealing assembly includes a first seal along a shaft and disposed between the flow passage and a shaft bearing, a second seal along the sha...