ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,337, issued on April 14, was assigned to SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS UK LTD. (Gloucester, Great Britain).
"Piezo-electric fluid pump" was invented by Tom Love (Gloucester, Great Britain), Andrew Plummer (Bath, Great Britain), Nathan Sell (Bath, Great Britain) and Roy Evans (Gloucester, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piezo-electric fluid pump is provided including a main housing; a fluid reservoir located within the main housing; a piston head moveably mounted within the main housing; a piezo-electric stack; a bias mechanism arranged to couple the piston head and piezo-electric stack and maintain the piezo-electric stack i...