ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,816, issued on May 20, was assigned to Cummins Filtration IP Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).
"Axial flow centrifugal separator" was invented by Christopher E. Holm (Madison, Wis.), Peter K. Herman (Stoughton, Wis.), Arun P. Janakiraman (Stoughton, Wis.), Gerard Malgorn (Ergue Gaberic, France), Chirag D. Parikh (Madison, Wis.), Anthony Barreteau (Quimper, France), Ronan Corvec (Quimper, France) and Ken Tofsland (Stoughton, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Rotating coalescer elements that maximize the radial-projected separation surface area in a given (rotating) cylindrical volume, where flow to be cleaned is passing axially upward or downw...