ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,103, issued on May 27, was assigned to Energy Recovery Inc. (San Leandro, Calif.).
"Control of a pressure exchanger system" was invented by James Elliott McLean Jr. (Houston), Patrick Morphew (Houston), Joseph Michael Marchetti (Spring, Texas), Chengyu Zhang (San Ramon, Calif.) and Kyaw Thu (Lathrop, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a pressure exchanger (PX) including a housing and configured to exchange pressure between a first fluid and a second fluid. The system further includes a bearing valve fluidly coupled to the housing of the PX and configured to provide the first fluid to the housing. The system furth...