ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,311, issued on Sept. 16.
"System and method for compressor performance monitoring and surge detection" was invented by Alberto Traverso (Novi Ligure, Italy), Paolo Silvestri (Genoa, Italy), Federico Reggio (Genoa, Italy), Carlo Alberto Niccolini (Genoa, Italy), Marco Ferrando (Genoa, Italy), William T. Cousins (East Hartford, Conn.) and Raffaele Spezia (Genoa, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method and a system for determining the operating state of a dynamic compressor that is mechanically connected to an electrical machine and that is equipped with a rotor that exchanges energy with a known fluid by rotat...