US Patent Issued to CORNING on Oct. 21 for "Offline measurement of honeycomb body filtration efficiency" (American, Chinese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,345, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Offline measurement of honeycomb body filtration efficiency" was invented by Joseph Henry Citriniti (Corning, N.Y.), Curtis Robert Fekety (Corning, N.Y.), Christopher Lane Kerr (Tioga, Pa.), Stefan Wolfgang Kramel (Regensburg, Germany), Huiqing Wu (Shanghai) and Xinfeng Xing (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods are disclosed which are capable of being used to determine filtration efficiency of a filter body even in a clean state. Methods of determining a filtration efficiency of a filter including forcing an inlet flow comprised of a gas ...