ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,849, issued on June 30, was assigned to ALFA LAVAL CORPORATE AB (Lund, Sweden).
"Centrifugal separator for separating a liquid mixture with positive displacement pumps respectively downstream of outlets" was invented by Douglas Osman (Newtown SQ, Pa.), Per-Gustaf Larsson (Huddinge, Sweden), Peter Thorwid (Sundbyberg, Sweden) and Staffan Konigsson (Tumba, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A centrifugal separator for separation of a liquid mixture includes a stationary frame, a rotatable assembly and a drive unit for rotating the rotatable assembly relative the frame around an axis of rotation, wherein the rotatable assembly includ...