US Patent Issued to SULZER MANAGEMENT on Aug. 18 for "Detuning device and method" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,059, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to SULZER MANAGEMENT AG (Winterthur, Switzerland).

"Detuning device and method" was invented by Thomas Francis Kaiser (Chimacum, Wash.) and Pharic Smith (Strathaven, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detuning ring includes first and second axial faces, and is for detuning a structural resonance in a pump assembly. The first axial face includes first lands and first grooves, each first land extending in a radial direction and including a planar first top face, and each first groove delimited by two adjacent first lands and the first axial face. The second axial face includes second lan...