ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,627, issued on July 8, was assigned to AQUA MEMBRANES INC. (Albuquerque, N.M.).
"Permeate flow patterns" was invented by Kevin Roderick (Albuquerque, N.M.), Rodney Herrington (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Kendall Weingardt (Albuquerque, N.M.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide the integration of arbitrary flow directing patterns, deposited or integrated on or into the porous permeate spacer in a spiral-wound membrane separation element."
The patent was filed on May 31, 2022, under Application No. 17/829,177.
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