ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,738, issued on June 10, was assigned to Twelve Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Hydraulic delivery systems with flow diversion devices and associated methods" was invented by Jean-Pierre Dueri (Los Gatos, Calif.), Gavin Kenny (Galway, Ireland), Jason Fox (San Mateo, Calif.) and Matthew McLean (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flow diversion device configured in accordance with embodiments of the present technology may include, for example, a housing including openings to channels that intersect at a junction. The flow diversion device may also include, for example, a flow control component disposed at the junction and mova...