US Patent Issued to UNM Rainforest Innovations on Feb. 10 for "Motionless molten salt pump on leverage of pressure variation force" (New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,337, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to UNM Rainforest Innovations (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Motionless molten salt pump on leverage of pressure variation force" was invented by Minghui Chen (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Mingfu He (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motionless pumping design that reduces operation and maintenance costs, and enhances reliability in three aspects of pneumatics system configuration. A motionless and corrosion-resistant pump which uses the continuous generation of pressure variation push/pull force by relying on the venturi effect induced by a pair of gas ejectors together with an argon pneumatic s...