ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,506, issued on July 22, was assigned to Buffalo Filter LLC.

"Filtration device and system" was invented by Christopher A. Palmerton (Clarence, N.Y.), Samantha Bonano (Williamsville, N.Y.), Anthony Lizauckas (Williamsville, N.Y.), Kyrylo Shvetsov (Tonawanda, N.Y.), Daniel R. Palmerton (Elma, N.Y.), Gregory Pepe (Lancaster, N.Y.) and Joseph Lynch (Williamsville, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid filtration device having an outer cylindrical surface with a first diameter having a longitudinal axis, and an inner cylindrical surface with an inner diameter substantially centered about the longitudinal axis, and a plurality of lon...