US Patent Issued to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND on July 1 for "Monolithic additively manufactured pump inlet housing and filter" (Connecticut, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,664, issued on July 1, was assigned to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Monolithic additively manufactured pump inlet housing and filter" was invented by Mark A. Zaffetti (Suffield, Conn.), Caitlin Patruski (West Springfield, Mass.) and Joseph Miranda (Suffield, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a pump inlet housing and filter for a pump assembly, wherein the pump inlet housing and filter are monolithic, the method has the steps of: defining a pump inlet housing as a housing tubular shape with an inlet aperture boundary at a housing top end, and an outlet aperture boundary at a housing bottom ...