US Patent Issued to INGERSOLL-RAND INDUSTRIAL U.S. on July 21 for "Pump with conduit system fluidly coupled to cylinders" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,165, issued on July 21, was assigned to INGERSOLL-RAND INDUSTRIAL U.S. INC. (Davidson, N.C.).

"Pump with conduit system fluidly coupled to cylinders" was invented by Brian James Scanlon (Statesville, N.C.), Daniel Brocker (Cornelius, N.C.) and Willem Kuyvenhoven (Davidson, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pump includes a cylinder and a piston disposed within the cylinder to define a first chamber and a second chamber within the cylinder. The piston is configured to move within the cylinder to reduce a size of the first chamber to discharge material from the first chamber. The pump also includes a conduit system configured to dir...