ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,269, issued on March 11, was assigned to ARGO-HYTOS Group AG (Baar, Switzerland).

"Separating element, separating device, filter element, filter housing, filter device, and method for separating gas bubbles from a liquid" was invented by Andras Veres (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to a separating element for separating gas bubbles from a liquid, in particular from hydraulic oil, which includes a volume body with an open-pored material structure which has a plurality of cells which are arranged offset with respect to one another in such a manner that a plurality of flow paths for guiding g...