ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,810, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to COAVIS (Sejong-si, South Korea).

"Water pump" was invented by Hyuntae Lee (Sejong-si, South Korea), Sungwoong Park (Cheonan-si, South Korea) and Seongjin Son (Ulsan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a water pump in which an upper casing and a lower casing are coupled to each other and an impeller is rotatably accommodated therein, in which the upper casing has an upper bulkhead formed to protrude at a position between an impeller accommodating space and a discharge channel in a radial direction, the lower casing has a lower bulkhead formed to protrud...