ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,358, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Wenzhou Pump and Valve Engineering Research Institute of Lanzhou University of Technology (Wenzhou, China) and Lanzhou University of Technology (Lanzhou, China).

"Scalable multi-stage magnetic levitation molten salt pump" was invented by Hui Quan (Wenzhou, China), Donglin Ma (Wenzhou, China), Yuanying Du (Lanzhou, China), Weizheng Zhang (Wenzhou, China) and Ying Guo (Lanzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scalable multi-stage magnetic levitation molten salt pump is provided. The scalable multi-stage magnetic levitation molten salt pump includes: a first pump stage assembly, a second pu...