ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,441, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ALFA LAVAL CORPORATE AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Method and a separation system" was invented by Per-Gustaf Larsson (Huddinge, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for determining gas presence in a fluid system of a centrifugal separator including a rotatable assembly, the fluid system includes a separation space in the rotatable assembly, an inlet passage into the separation space, and at least a first outlet passage from the separation space. The method includes providing a feed liquid into the separation space, closing all outlet passages, supplying further feed liquid to the inlet pass...