ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,174, issued on June 17, was assigned to CLEANR INC. (Cleveland).
"Vortical cross-flow filtration system" was invented by Maxwell T. Pennington (Cincinnati), Joseph I. Miller IV (Atlanta), David W. Dillman (Glen Ellyn, Ill.) and Marc A. Turenne (Cincinnati).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods involving filtration are disclosed. A filtration device includes a first opening, a second opening, and a vortical filter, the vortical filter comprising a rib. The rib may be configured to generate vortices to keep the filtered particles in suspension and to provide a flow path extending from the first opening to the second opening...