ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,530, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Ingersoll-Rand Industrial U.S. Inc. (Davidson, N.C.).
"Centrifugal acceleration stabilizer" was invented by Chester V. Swiatek (Amherst, N.Y.), Mikhail Grigoriev (East Amherst, N.Y.), Paul C. Brown (Buffalo, N.Y.) and Charles Impastato (East Aurora, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dynamic compressor includes an impeller having impeller vanes disposed around a hub, a shroud, and a diffuser having a shroud surface adjacent to the shroud and a hub surface adjacent to the hub, wherein the diffuser is circumferentially disposed around the impeller. The diffuser includes a plurality of diffuser...