ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,385, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES (Bordes, France).

"Turbomachine provided with a magnetic drive pump" was invented by David Simon Serge Taieb (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Jean-Marie Andre Robert Gigon (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Franck Albert Robert Dupeu (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbomachine including a rotary body including a motor shaft supplying mechanical power, and at least one magnetic drive pump including at least: one stator delimiting an annular inner space and including a first and a second flange, a rotor arranged in the inner space between the first and se...