US Patent Issued to Advancing Pump Technology on Dec. 30 for "Rotary gear pump with a centered drive gear" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,071, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Advancing Pump Technology Corp. (Calgary, Canada).

"Rotary gear pump with a centered drive gear" was invented by Kim Pollard (Calgary, Canada), Ryan Chachula (Calgary, Canada), Dale Serafinchan (Calgary, Canada) and Tom Bryant (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary gear pump includes a housing, a drive gear, and an idler gear. The housing has a central axis extending in an axial direction, and defines an intake port, a discharge port, and a gear chamber in fluid communication with the intake port and the discharge port. The drive gear and the idler gear are intermeshed, and ro...