ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,365, issued on July 8, was assigned to TangTring Seating Technology Inc. (Huizhou, China).
"Integrated air valve" was invented by Tsun-Hsiang Wen (Taipei, Taiwan), Shih-Chung Hsu (Taipei, Taiwan), Chia-Yu Yu (Taipei, Taiwan) and Peng Zhao (Huizhou Guangdong, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated air valve includes a hollow shell formed with a valve installation space, two air holes respectively an air inlet hole and an exhaust hole communicated to the space, and two support members; two lever members; and two shape memory alloy members. The lever member uses one of the support members as a fulcrum. The lever member includ...