US Patent Issued on Dec. 9 for "Quantitative disorder analysis and particle removal efficiency of fiber-based filter media" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,457, issued on Dec. 9.

"Quantitative disorder analysis and particle removal efficiency of fiber-based filter media" was invented by Robert Allen Makin III (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Steven Michael Durbin (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for predicting and adjusting particle removal efficiency of fiber-based filter media based on quantification of disorder. An order parameter may be extracted through Raman spectroscopy or scanning electron microscopy. Production processes may be adjusted to change (e.g., increase) the particle removal efficiency of fiber-based filter media utilizing a predefined correlation betwee...