ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,817, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to GECKO ALLIANCE GROUP INC. (Quebec, Canada).

"Water-cooled pump assembly for bathing unit system and pump assembly for bathing unit system with mounting brackets" was invented by Martin Pelletier (Quebec, Canada), Benoit Laflamme (Quebec, Canada) and Philippe Lessard (Quebec, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pump assembly is presented including a motor housing holding a motor, a wet-end housing and a heat transfer interface positioned between a front end of the motor housing and the wet-end housing. The heat transfer interface establishes a first thermal conduction path between the motor...