ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,419, issued on June 17, was assigned to BASF COATINGS GMBH (Muenster, Germany).

"Method for cleaning electrophoretic coating baths, and device therefor" was invented by Dominik Pabst (Munster, Germany) and Rolf Schulte (Munster, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a method for cleaning an electrocoating bath in a continuous facility, where a skid connected to a conveying installation is conveyed through the electrocoating bath, and where the skid includes a filter medium; the filter medium is secured on the skid via at least one movable connecting element; the movable connecting element allows the orientation o...