ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,067, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Wagner Group GmbH (Germany).
"Flow means for reversing the direction of flow" was invented by Lutz Burkhardt (Hannover, Germany) and Jonas Hartwig (Langenhagen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flow means with a housing and a fan to generate a fluid flow within a pipe or hose line of an intake monitoring system. The fan can be connected to the pipe or hose line via connecting pieces and can be driven to rotate. The invention creates a flow means which enables the direction of flow to be reversed. Respective blocking means are assigned to the connecting pieces and can be moved from an inta...