ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,135, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Separating device and use of a separating device" was invented by Peter Knestel (Dietmannsried, Germany), Reinhold Joerg (Sulzberg, Germany), Wolfgang M. Rauch (Argenbuhl, Germany) and Dietrich Lange (Weitnau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a separating device for removing solid particles from fluids, and to the use of said separating device for removing solid particles from fluids."

The patent was filed on Aug. 1, 2019, under Application No. 17/264,536.

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