ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,643, issued on July 15, was assigned to KSB SE & Co. KGaA (Frankenthal, Germany).
"Pump having a control panel" was invented by David Krill (Frankenthal, Germany), Fred Brueckmann (Frankenthal, Germany), Federico Di Santo (Sossano, Italy), Mattia Liboni (Pojana Maggiore, Italy) and Carlo Prearo (Nanto, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pump, in particular a centrifugal pump, includes a control panel for manually operating and/or configuring the pump. The control panel includes at least one touch-sensitive surface for user inputs, and at least one film for sealing the touch-sensitive surface from the environment applied on the to...