ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,687, issued on May 12, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Pump manifold with redundancy for gas extraction system" was invented by Alexandre Boivin (Quebec, Canada), Marc Burnett (Quebec, Canada), Dominic Michaud (Lac-Beauport, Canada), Kyle Owen (Lompoc, Calif.), Axel Meunier (Quebec, Canada) and John Brian Leen (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems and methods that include a multiple pump manifold to provide redundancy for use with high availability gas extraction system in industrial instrumentation. A method of operating a redundant pump assembly including op...