US Patent Issued to Sulzer Management on June 3 for "Pump for conveying wastewater and impeller for such a pump" (Irish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,364, issued on June 3, was assigned to Sulzer Management AG (Winterthur, Switzerland).

"Pump for conveying wastewater and impeller for such a pump" was invented by Robert Connolly (Wexford, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An impeller for a pump for conveying wastewater is proposed, includes a shroud to be rotated about an axis of rotation defining an axial direction, and a blade to convey the wastewater. The blade includes a leading edge, a trailing edge, a pressure side, a suction side and an upper rim. The blade extends from the shroud in the axial direction to the upper rim and extends in a circumferential direction from the...