US Patent Issued to Graco Minnesota on Feb. 17 for "Pump and drive assembly" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,426, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Graco Minnesota Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Pump and drive assembly" was invented by Matthew R. Theisen (Woodbury, Minn.), Bryan K. Colby (New Brighton, Minn.), Bryce J. Gapinski (Minneapolis), Jeremy P. Jurmu (Buffalo, Minn.), David M. Larsen (Albertville, Minn.) and Mark D. Shultz (Ham Lake, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pump assembly includes a pump module configured to be supported by a fluid tank and a drive module configured to be supported by the pump module. The drive module is mountable to and dismountable from the pump module. The drive module provides a motive force to the pump mod...