US Patent Issued to Donaldson on Aug. 26 for "Filter housing with drop out chamber and methods" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,252, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Donaldson Co. Inc. (Bloomington, Minn.).

"Filter housing with drop out chamber and methods" was invented by Ross C. J. Stoneham (Ferndown, Great Britain) and Colin G. MacAlpine (Motcombe, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filter housing includes a container with a surrounding wall defining an open interior volume; the container having an access opening in communication with the interior volume;) a filter element in the interior volume; the filter element having an inlet face and outlet face and oriented for filtering gas by gas flow through the inlet face and out through the outlet...