ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,734, issued on July 15, was assigned to Vitesco Technologies USA LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).
"Rotor for multiport coolant flow control valve assembly" was invented by Alexander Dragojlov (Chatham, Canada), Ravinder Singh Gill (Chatham, Canada) and Bogdan-Daniel Rautu (Dumbravita, Romania).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-port valve assembly, including a housing, a plurality of ports formed as part of the housing, and a rotor disposed in the housing, the rotor selectively in fluid communication with the ports. A first channel is integrally formed as part of the rotor, and a circumferential wall is part of the first channel, the ci...