ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,382, issued on April 22, was assigned to ELGIN SEPARATION SOLUTIONS INDUSTRIALS LLC (Stafford, Texas).
"Electronically controlled hydraulic decanter centrifuge" was invented by Michael Rai Anderson (Sugar Land, Texas), Emad Tariq Babri (Katy, Texas) and William Merida (League City, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A centrifuge system includes a centrifuge and a feed line fluidly connected to centrifuge with the centrifuge driven by a hydraulic system. The hydraulic system includes an electric motor driving a hydraulic pump connected to a fluid reservoir with the hydraulic pump providing hydraulic fluid to one or more hydraulic mot...