ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,106, issued on June 17, was assigned to Cummins Filtration IP Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"Split flow axial crankcase separator" was invented by Chirag D. Parikh (Madison, Wis.), Peter K. Herman (Stoughton, Wis.) and Arun P. Janakiraman (Stoughton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotating separator includes a filter housing extending axially along a longitudinal axis and a filter element positioned within the filter housing. The filter element includes a first endplate and a second endplate operatively coupled to the first endplate, a first element core and a second element core positioned between the first endplate and the second e...