US Patent Issued to Levitronix on Dec. 2 for "Device for changing a pump unit of a centrifugal pump and centrifugal pump" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,848, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Levitronix GmbH (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Device for changing a pump unit of a centrifugal pump and centrifugal pump" was invented by Alexander Schmid (Hotzenmattstrasse, Switzerland), Samuel Schneider (Rietgrabenstrasse, Switzerland) and Natale Barletta (Baslerstrasse, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for changing a pump unit of a centrifugal pump is proposed. The centrifugal pump includes the pump unit and a stator extending in an axial direction. A cup-shaped recess is provided at the first axial end of the stator into which the pump unit is capable of being inserted. The devi...