ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,945, issued on March 17, was assigned to Blue Origin Manufacturing LLC (Huntsville, Ala.).

"Pump for two-phase magnetic fluids" was invented by Gary D. Grayson (Maple Valley, Wash.), Zachary Daniel Rizzolo (Renton, Wash.), Emmanuel John Grillos II (Kent, Wash.) and Michael Friedman (Belton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Architectures and methods of operation for a pump for pumping two-phase magnetic fluids are described. The pump is capable of such pumping and may operate with no moving parts. Instead, the pump operates by selectively activating and deactivating each of a series of electrical circuits to control the presence ...