US Patent Issued to Graco Minnesota on Sept. 8 for "Transfer pump assembly" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,669, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Graco Minnesota Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Transfer pump assembly" was invented by David M. Larsen (Albertville, Minn.), Jeremy P. Jurmu (Buffalo, Minn.), Mark D. Shultz (Ham Lake, Minn.), Quincy A. Kesti (Monticello, Minn.) and Marcos M. Rodriguez (Litchfield, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transfer pump includes a drive module having electronic components and a fluid module not including electronic components. The drive module provides motive power to a pump of the fluid module to power pumping by the fluid module. The drive module is movably mounted to the fluid module at dynamic and stati...