US Patent Issued to Weir Minerals Australia on Jan. 13 for "Centrifugal pump impeller with tapered shroud" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,235, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Weir Minerals Australia Ltd (Australia).

"Centrifugal pump impeller with tapered shroud" was invented by Michael George Dern (Lane Cove, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An impeller for a centrifugal pump has an inlet through which fluid passes into the impeller as well as pumping vanes for pumping the fluid from the inlet and expelling the fluid into a pumping chamber of the centrifugal pump in which the impeller operates, and the impeller also has at least one shroud extending radially from an axis of rotation for the impeller and attached to the pumping vanes, the at least one shroud...