ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,837, issued on June 17, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Additive manufacturing and generative design hydraulic shuttle valve" was invented by Kishora Shetty (Bengaluru, India) and Chandan Radhakrishna Chittal (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shuttle valve including a first inlet having a first, substantially uniform fluid line and a second inlet having a second, substantially uniform fluid line. A manifold chamber is in communication with the first and second fluid lines, and an outlet having a third fluid line between the first and second inlets. The third fluid line has a third inner radius subst...