ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,533, issued on March 25, was assigned to AQUA INNOVATION NETWORK HOLDING B.V. (Veessen, Netherlands).

"Filtering device and system, method of installing a filtering device and use of a filtering device" was invented by Frans Paul Johannes Durieux (Veessen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a filtering device for filtering fibrous material from water flowing through a channel, the device comprising a sieve, the sieve being arranged at an angle with respect a flow direction defined by the channel. According to the invention, said angle is smaller than 25deg. The invention also relates to a method of i...