ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,292, issued on May 27, was assigned to AMOGREENTECH Co. LTD. (Gimpo-si, South Korea).

"Manifold assemblies for filters" was invented by Jae Kyung Song (Gimpo-si, South Korea), Kyoung Ku Han (Gimpo-si, South Korea) and Sung Bin Lee (Gimpo-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filter module for a gravity-type water-purifying device including a plurality of plate-shaped filter members, which are in a plate shape having a predetermined area, produce filtered water from raw water introduced from the outside, and are spaced apart from each other in parallel along one direction while one surface of each filter member faces each o...