ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,469, issued on July 29, was assigned to Cummins Filtration IP Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).
"Perforated layer coalescer" was invented by Mark T. Wieczorek (Cookeville, Tenn.), Joshua Ryan Hendrixson (Smithville, Tenn.) and Barry Mark Verdegan (Stoughton, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure generally relates to perforated filter media and coalescing filter elements utilizing perforated filter media. One example coalescing filter element is structured to separate a dispersed phase from a continuous phase of a mixture. The filter media includes a first coalescing layer. The first coalescing layer includes a first filter media. ...