US Patent Issued to Robert Bosch on July 22 for "Fuel cell system, gas tank device and shut-off valve for a gas tank device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,332, issued on July 22, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Fuel cell system, gas tank device and shut-off valve for a gas tank device" was invented by Andreas Rau (Stuttgart, Germany), Joachim Soubari (Ettlingen, Germany) and Udo Schaich (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a shut-off valve comprising: a housing which has an inlet opening, an outlet opening and a control opening, wherein the housing defines an inner space extending along a longitudinal axis and has a partition which divides the inner space into an outlet chamber and a control chamber and has a guide hole wh...