ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,813, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corp. (Vancouver, Canada).

"Miniaturized hydraulic valve, and applications thereof in robot systems" was invented by Amir Farzad Forughi (Vancouver, Canada), Can Ozdemir (Vancouver, Canada) and James Hao Guan Quek (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrohydraulic valve includes a valve housing having a common chamber and a metering port in communication with the common chamber. The valve housing is coupled to a valve manifold having an inlet port and an outlet port. A first nozzle in fluid communication with the inlet port has a first orifice. A sec...