US Patent Issued to Murzanski Engineering on May 6 for "Rotary union" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,144, issued on May 6, was assigned to Murzanski Engineering (Kalispell, Mont.).

"Rotary union" was invented by Matthew Murzanski (Inverness, Ill.) and Boguslaw Stypula (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved water union may include a fixed portion and a rotating portion. The fixed portion of the water union may be physically coupled to a stationary portion of a machine or other stationary object and the rotating portion may be physically coupled to a rotating portion of a machine or other rotating object. For example, a rotating table may include a stationary base to which the fixed portion of the water union may be physi...