ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,915, issued on March 3, was assigned to Flow International Corp. (Kent, Wash.).

"Abrasive fluid jet with recycling system for abrasives and methods of use of same" was invented by Timothy R. Fabian (Geneva, Ill.), Mohamed Hashish (Bellevue, Wash.), Timothy J. Drinnon (Des Moines, Wash.) and Sean R. Schramm (Buckley, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are components, systems, and methods of operating an abrasive fluid jet system that recycles and reuses abrasive particles for multiple cycles. The systems and methods include adjusting one or more operating parameters of the abrasive fluid jet system to compensate for...