ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,365, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to ProMinent GmbH (Heidelberg, Germany).

"Process for sensorless detection of stroke execution in a magnetic pump" was invented by Markus Sharpe (Heidelberg, Germany), Harald Rauh (Heidelberg, Germany) and Qinghai Shi (Karlsruhe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for operating a pump, the pump having a conveying chamber for conveying a fluid, the pump having a displacement element, the displacement element delimiting the conveying chamber at least in sections, so that a change in the position or location of the displacement element causes a change in the volume of the conveying cham...