US Patent Issued to Nuovo Pignone Tecnologie-S.R.L. on June 3 for "Centrifugal compressor and method of operating the centrifugal compressor to produce a uniform inlet flow of process gas" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,366, issued on June 3, was assigned to Nuovo Pignone Tecnologie-S.R.L. (Florence, Italy).

"Centrifugal compressor and method of operating the centrifugal compressor to produce a uniform inlet flow of process gas" was invented by Marco Quercia (Florence, Italy), Giuseppe Sassanelli (Florence, Italy), Simone Corbo (Florence, Italy) and Angelo Grimaldi (Florence, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The centrifugal compressor has a housing with two or more compressor inlets for process gas to be compressed; an impeller is located inside the housing so to receive an inlet flow of process gas from the two compressor inlets through a plenum...