ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,034, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Blue Skies Global LLC (Williams Bay, Wis.).

"Regenerative media filter" was invented by Paul F. Nehlen III (Delavan, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A regenerative filter that includes a filter housing having inlet and outlet zones; a fluid path provided between the inlet and outlet zones; a plurality of filter elements each having an outer surface filter media applied thereto and functioning to filter particulate or contaminants from the fluid path. The filter elements are disposed in an monolithic array. An inlet port arrangement is disposed at the filter housing leading to the inlet zone...