ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,513, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ALFDEX AB (Landskrona, Sweden).

"Disc stack, rotor unit, centrifugal separator, method of providing disc stack, and method of providing rotor unit" was invented by Patrik Jonsson (Huddinge, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disc stack of frustoconical separation discs is configured to be mounted in a separation chamber of a centrifugal separator. The discs are stacked upon each other in a manner forming narrow separation spaces between adjacent discs. The discs are welded to each other at radially outer portions of the discs. A rotor unit for a centrifugal separator, a centrifugal separat...