ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,264, issued on April 14, was assigned to EVERLLENCE SE (Augsburg, Germany).
"Radial expander" was invented by Franz Holger (Oberhausen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radial expander having a rotor mounted in a housing and comprising multiple blades. The blades together with a radially inner hub contour of a rotor hub and a radially outer housing contour define flow channels for the process gas, which process gas to be expanded enters in a radial direction and from which expanded process gas exits in the axial direction. The radially inner hub contour of the rotor includes a curvature change at least in some circumferentia...