US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Energy Technology UK, Baker Hughes Holdings on July 28 for "Particulate restriction for fluid pumps" (Italian, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,393, issued on July 28, was assigned to Baker Hughes Energy Technology UK Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain) and Baker Hughes Holdings LLC (Houston).

"Particulate restriction for fluid pumps" was invented by Uday Meduri (Bangalore, India), Carlo Maria Martini (Florence, Italy), Manuele Bigi (Calenzano, Italy), Saminathan Mani (Bangalore, India) and Subrata Pal (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pump for use with fluids having particulates has an inlet to allow the fluids into a chamber of the pump. The chamber has a direct flow path of at least one larger width than a side flow path, and has a movable blade and diffuser st...