US Patent Issued to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF on April 7 for "Bearing arrangement of a pump and method of operating" (Swedish, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,803, issued on April 7, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Bearing arrangement of a pump and method of operating" was invented by Olle Bankestrom (Vastra Frolunda, Sweden) and Pekka Korpelainen (Klaukkala, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing arrangement of a centrifugal pump includes at least one rolling-element bearing configured to support an impeller shaft of the centrifugal pump and to support an axial load, an axial force sensor configured to measure a present axial force acting on the impeller shaft, a rotation speed sensor configured to measure a present rotation speed of the impeller shaft, a...