US Patent Issued to Xylem Europe on June 17 for "Method for monitoring and controlling the operation of a pump station" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,641, issued on June 17, was assigned to Xylem Europe GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Method for monitoring and controlling the operation of a pump station" was invented by Jurgen Mokander (Sollentuna, Sweden), Martin Wessman (Solna, Sweden) and Staffan Aldenfalk (Solna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for monitoring and controlling the operation of a pump station (1) comprising a tank (8) for storage of a liquid and at least one pump (2), the pump station (1) further comprises an outlet conduit (5) connected to the pump (2), the method comprising the steps of: determining the Geodetic head (...