ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,371, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Bearing arrangement for pumps" was invented by Zachary Allen Ray Le Duc (Granby, Conn.), Edward W. Goy (Crystal Lake, Ill.) and Joseph Wetch (Roscoe, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with at least one aspect of this disclosure, a pump comprises a pump rotor having a plurality of vanes therein configured to pump a fluid from a pump inlet to a pump outlet through rotation of the rotor about a rotational axis, an input shaft operatively connected to drive rotation of the rotor, and a bearing operatively connected to the input shaft con...