ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,282, issued on June 24.
"Potted flat sheet membrane filtration module" was invented by Ionel John Tomescu (Ancaster, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filtration element has one or more rigid inserts in a housing. The inserts are covered with membranes. The element is configured to provide open feed channels beside the inserts. The membranes and inserts are potted at an edge, optionally at only part of an edge such as a corner. Permeate flows between the membrane and the insert to the potted edge. The membranes may be potted in a centrifuge."
The patent was filed on March 18, 2021, under Application No. 17/205,391.
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