ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,091, issued on July 29, was assigned to S.A. Armstrong Ltd. (Scarborough, Canada).

"Twin pump unit casing having motor mounted touchscreens" was invented by Gabor Lechner (Scarborough, Canada), Marcelo Javier Acosta Gonzalez (Scarborough, Canada), Rohit Mohindra (Scarborough, Canada) and Santhosh Vijayan (Scarborough, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual pump unit having a pair of pumps that provide parallel hydraulic paths, and are configured to operate concurrently in opposite rotational directions. The dual pump unit has a sealed casing which includes a suction flange, two volutes in hydraulically parallel configuration, a...