ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,352, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Watson Marlow GmbH-MasoSine Division (Ilsfeld, Germany).
"Sinusoidal pump with blocking slide, and production method" was invented by Frank Dambacher (Ilsfeld, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blocking slide for a pump includes a rotor contact area designed to rest against a wave-shaped rotor collar of the pump, wherein the rotor contact area includes lateral rotor contact surfaces which are designed to rest in each case against side surfaces of the rotor collar, and an upper rotor contact surface which is designed to rest against a radially outward-facing shell surface of the rotor col...