US Patent Issued to General Electric on Nov. 18 for "Dual compression-expansion pumps and related methods" (German, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,874, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Dual compression-expansion pumps and related methods" was invented by David Raju Yamarthi (Bengaluru, India), Rodrigo Rodriguez Erdmenger (Garching, Germany), Maysaa Rizk (Garching, Germany), Adam Joseph Wangler (Evendale, Ohio) and Ismail Hakki Sezal (Garching, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dual compression-expansion pumps and related methods are disclosed. An example fluid pump includes a shaft, a motor coupled to the shaft, the motor to drive a rotation of the shaft, a compressor coupled to a first end of the shaft, a turbine coupled to a seco...