US Patent Issued to Pentair Flow Technologies on Oct. 6 for "Pump diffuser anti-rotation and alignment assembly" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,774, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Pentair Flow Technologies LLC (Delavan, Wis.).

"Pump diffuser anti-rotation and alignment assembly" was invented by Aditya Vohra (Noida, India), Deepak Tyagi (Delhi, India) and Prasun Kumar Pandey (Chhapra, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pump including an impeller, a housing having an alignment lug and an alignment collar disposed on an inner wall, and a diffuser having a plurality of vanes, each with a vane head on its trailing edge, the vane head including a radial alignment surface. A first vane includes a first vane head with a notch and a first radial alignment surface. The notch is ...