US Patent Issued to Voith Patent on Dec. 16 for "Method of refurbishing an energy conversion facility and refurbished energy conversion facility" (Pennsylvania, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,940, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Voith Patent GmbH (Heidenheim, Germany).

"Method of refurbishing an energy conversion facility and refurbished energy conversion facility" was invented by Thomas Ort (York, Pa.), Veerandra Chakkaravarthy Andichamy (Timonium, Md.), Rebecca Fuhrman (York, Pa.) and Kayli Rentzel (Mount Woilf, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of refurbishing a facility for converting hydraulic energy into electrical energy including the following steps: providing a first cover plate, a second cover plate, a first opening located at an inner head cover, a second opening located at a hub, a third opening l...