ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,279, issued on July 1, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Oil lubricated fluid pumps with oil separators" was invented by David Raju Yamarthi (Bengaluru, India), Ravindra Shankar Ganiger (Bengaluru, India), Mohan Kannaiah Raju (Bengaluru, India), Prachi Anand Tappu (Bengaluru, India), Santosh Pattnaik (Bengaluru, India), Shishir Paresh Shah (Bengaluru, India) and Adam Joseph Wangler (Evandale, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Oil lubricated supercritical fluid pumps with oil separators are disclosed herein. An example pump system to pressurize a fluid within a closed loop thermal transport bus disclosed her...