US Patent Issued to Hoerbiger Wien on Oct. 7 for "Pressure packing for a reciprocating piston compressor with buffer gas barrier" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,716, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Hoerbiger Wien GmbH (Vienna).

"Pressure packing for a reciprocating piston compressor with buffer gas barrier" was invented by Andreas Brandl (Vienna), John Warner Ladd (Vienna), Karl Richard Markey (Vienna), Guido Pratelli (Vienna) and Patrick James Raffety (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For a pressure packing with a buffer gas barrier into which a buffer gas is fed via a buffer gas feeding line, a sensing line is provided that is connected at a first end to a vent volume in the pressure packing with an opposite second end of the sensing line being closed, so that there is no gas flow in...