ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,161, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to AQUAPORIN A/S (Kongens Lyngby, Germany).
"Hollow fiber module" was invented by Michael Holm Moller (Lund, Sweden), Krzysztof Trzaskus (Kongens Lyngby, Denmark), Mads Friis Andersen (Valby, Denmark), Xuan Tung Nguyen (Singapore), Simon Alvisse (Singapore) and Guofei Sun (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hollow fiber module includes hollow fiber cartridges. A port receives a second solution to be treated in a shell side volume and another port for discharging the treated second solution. A first end cap has an inlet for a first solution and a distributer for distributing the first sol...