ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,766, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to WILO SE (Dortmund, Germany).

"Vertical turbine pump and method for producing an elbow housing and/or a lantern housing of a vertical turbine pump" was invented by Lukasz Tilgner (Dortmund, Germany), Daniel Albers (Dortmund, Germany), Raju Patil (Chinchwad, India), Shashank Pawar (Chinchwad, India) and Alex Schewalje (Dortmund, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a vertical turbine pump having a riser pipe extending along an axis, a motor shaft arranged in the riser pipe, an elbow housing with an elbow arranged therein and connected on a pressure side to the riser pipe,...