ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,896, issued on June 10, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Fuel cell system having a valve in a valve housing and a method for controlling a flow of a fluid" was invented by Janis Zeiser (Schwieberdingen, Germany), Dirk Schnittger (Ludwigsburg, Germany) and Friedrich Howey (Ditzingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a fuel cell system (200) having a valve (10) in a valve housing (50), the valve (10) having: a) a drive unit (12), b) an elongate rotor (20) with a first rotor section (21) and a second rotor section (22), the second rotor section (22) having: I. a first radially circu...