ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,339, issued on July 1, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).
"Multi-way valve" was invented by Robert Herkimer (Savannah, Ga.), Sofia C. Salas (Denton, Texas), Ashten M. Cole (Grapevine, Texas) and Shahryar Fotovati (Frisco, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multi-way valves for conditioned airflow control systems. In embodiments, a multi-way valve includes an intake configured to receive an airflow as in input to the multi-way valve, a plurality of outlets, each of the plurality of outlets configured to provide at least a portion of the airflow as an output of the multi-way valve, a gate assembly including a...