ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,734, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Thomas GmbH (Herdorf, Germany).
"Gerotor pump and motor/pump unit" was invented by Louis Kammerl (Herdorf, Germany), Etienne Dautry (Daaden, Germany) and Christian Kretzer (Daaden, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gerotor pump for conveying a fluid from an inlet pump chamber which is connected to an inlet to an outlet pump chamber, which is connected to an outlet, of the gerotor pump having a rotatable outer rotor; a rotatable inner rotor, which is arranged radially inside the outer rotor; a housing having a housing cover and a housing base, between which the outer rotor and the inner rot...