ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,915, issued on June 24, was assigned to Vitesco Technologies USA LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).
"Coolant flow control valve seal assembly" was invented by Alexander Dragojlov (Chatham, Canada), Jorg Eissler (Wiesbaden, Germany), Ravinder Singh Gill (Chatham, Canada), Benjamin MacNally (Chatham, Canada) and Jeremy Daniel Schmidt (Chatham, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seal assembly for a multi-port valve assembly, the seal assembly including a plurality of beads integrally formed as part of a rotor, at least one seal element in sliding contact with one or more of the beads, and at least one lip seal integrally formed as part of ...