ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,678, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to ALFA LAVAL CORPORATE AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Centrifugal separator including a plurality of temperature sensors provided at outlet channels, and a method of operating a centrifugal separator" was invented by Per-Gustaf Larsson (Huddinge, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A centrifugal separator and a method of operating the separator are disclosed. The separator includes a centrifuge rotor having a rotor wall enclosing an inner space containing a stack of separation disks. The rotor includes an inlet for a product, a first outlet for a light phase of the product, and a second outlet for a heavy...