ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,970, issued on April 15, was assigned to ALFA LAVAL CORPORATE AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Scrubber for cleaning of a gas" was invented by Ruddi Kruse Mortensen (Nibe, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scrubber for cleaning of a gas comprises a casing enclosing a scrubbing chamber. The casing comprises a gas inlet into and a gas outlet out from the scrubbing chamber. A gas flow of the gas flows through the scrubbing chamber in a flow direction from the gas inlet to the gas outlet. A deflector device is provided in the scrubbing chamber between the gas inlet and the gas outlet and forms a passage between the deflector device and the casi...