ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,026, issued on May 6, was assigned to Flowserve Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Variable speed reconfigurable pump/turbine clusters" was invented by Andreas Dreiss (Geestland, Germany), Mark O'Sullivan (Phillipsburg, N.J.), Scott C. Judge (Bethlehem, Pa.) and Gregory Morrison (Nazareth, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A "hydraulic rotating machinery" ("HRM") system provides optimal energy efficiency over a very wide conditions of service ("COS") range by configuring a plurality of variable speed HRMs in a "cluster." The HRMs are interconnected by one or more valves that can be actuated by a controller to configure and vary a flow path thr...