US Patent Issued to Cummins Filtration IP on June 17 for "Undulated interlocking housing-endplate interface geometry" (Tennessee, Iowa, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,099, issued on June 17, was assigned to Cummins Filtration IP Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"Undulated interlocking housing-endplate interface geometry" was invented by Philip M. Ouweleen (Cookeville, Tenn.), Zemin Jiang (Cookeville, Tenn.), Ted S. Loftis (Cookeville, Tenn.), Karthik Kothakota (Cookeville, Tenn.), Mano Raj Sekar (Columbus, Ind.), Mark J. Johnson (Cookeville, Ind.), Aaron M. Wells (Cookeville, Tenn.), Robert A. Bannister (Ames, Iowa), Joshua Crooks (Cookeville, Tenn.), Brian M. Palmer (Cookeville, Tenn.), Sean M. Grabein (Rock Island, Tenn.) and Connor D. Oren (Cookeville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filtration sy...