ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,962, issued on April 15, was assigned to Amiad Water Systems LTD. (Upper Galil, Israel).

"Control mechanism for self-cleaning filtration systems" was invented by Amir Eisen (Upper Galil, Israel), Roi Peled (Upper Galil, Israel) and Kfir Atias (Ein Ya'akov, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control mechanism for self-cleaning filtration systems. One embodiment is a controller for a filtration system that comprises a suction scanner and a screening element having modifiable respective locations therebetween. The controller comprises an input terminal for receiving a relative location signal and additional a differential pressure i...