US Patent Issued to BL Technologies on June 17 for "Spiral wound membrane element for high temperature filtration" (New York, California, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,120, issued on June 17, was assigned to BL Technologies Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Spiral wound membrane element for high temperature filtration" was invented by Paul Michael Smigelski Jr. (Niskayuna, N.Y.), David Olson (Minnetonka, Minn.), Rachel Gettings (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Jack Howson (Niskayuna, N.Y.), David Moore (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Deborah De La Cruz (Vista, Calif.), Hua Wang (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Joel Caraher (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spiral wound membrane module is suitable for use with high temperature water that may also have a high pH, for example steam injection produced water. The module uses a memb...