US Patent Issued to Camfil on Oct. 14 for "Air filter assembly with improved liquid drainage" (Swedish, Malaysian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,791, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Camfil AB (Stockholm).

"Air filter assembly with improved liquid drainage" was invented by Daniel Iggander (Trosa, Sweden), Kenny Hedlund (Trosa, Sweden), Cheah Wei Ng (Ipoh, Malaysia) and Muthu Krisnan Mageshvaran (Parit, Malaysia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air filter assembly and use thereof for filtration of air in wet or damp conditions, said air filter assembly comprising: an air filter comprising a front frame defining at least one rectangular aperture for receiving an air flow to be filtered; characterized in that said air filter assembly comprises a deflector element extending al...