ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,413, issued on May 5, was assigned to SULZER MANAGEMENT (Winterthur, Switzerland).

"Method for controlling of a pump unit and a pump unit for pumping liquid or suspension" was invented by Janne Ripattila (Kotka, Finland) and Kalle Tiitinen (Kotka, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a pump unit includes controlling the pump unit based on a determination of a combination of an inducer and a centrifugal pump at least on parameters of total volumetric flow rate and pressure difference over the pump unit, and controlling the pump unit based on a surface level on a suction side of the pump unit, and an NPSHaA at ...