ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,369, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to PIUSI S.P.A. (Suzzara, Italy).

"Diaphragm pump" was invented by Francesco Pavin (Grumolo Delle Abbadesse, Italy), Giorgio Russo (Vicenza, Italy) and Alessandro Cazzola (Grumolo Delle Abbadesse, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diaphragm pump, which comprises a pump body which defines internally at least one pair of pumping chambers which are connected, at the inlet, to at least one suction connector and, at the outlet, to at least one delivery connector of the pump; pumping chambers are delimited by respective diaphragms, which separate the pumping chambers from actuation chambers, which ...