US Patent Issued to ALFA LAVAL CORPORATE on April 22 for "Method for determining if air is trapped within a centrifugal separator" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,381, issued on April 22, was assigned to ALFA LAVAL CORPORATE AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Method for determining if air is trapped within a centrifugal separator" was invented by Per-Gustaf Larsson (Huddinge, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining if air is trapped within a centrifugal separator, the separator including a stationary frame, a rotatable assembly, a drive unit for rotating the rotatable assembly relative the frame around an axis of rotation, a feed inlet for supply of a liquid mixture to be separated, a first liquid outlet for discharge of a separated liquid phase and a second liquid outlet for discharge ...