US Patent Issued to CUMMINS, HYDROGENICS on Sept. 9 for "Hydrogen recirculation pump heating and sealing assemblies and methods" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,818, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to CUMMINS INC. (Columbus, Ind.) and HYDROGENICS Corp. (Mississauga, Canada).

"Hydrogen recirculation pump heating and sealing assemblies and methods" was invented by Christopher Nelson (Columbus, Ind.), Bryn Epp (Barrie, Canada) and Nathaniel Ian Joos (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recirculation pump includes an impeller, a pump motor assembly, and a heater. The pump motor assembly includes a pump housing having a pump cavity and a pump motor arranged in the pump cavity that drives the impeller, the pump housing arranged axially away from the impeller. The heater is disposed on or in ...