US Patent Issued to Donaldson on July 15 for "Liquid filter assembly" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,930, issued on July 15, was assigned to Donaldson Co. Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Liquid filter assembly" was invented by Gunter Van De Poel (Minneapolis), Lukasz Handzlik (Minneapolis), Joost Roels (Minneapolis), Erwin Verbelen (Minneapolis) and Luca Ghisu (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure pertains to a filter assembly comprising a base, a cover, and a cylindrical filter element, the base being adapted to receive the cover with the filter element inserted therein. The base has an outlet orifice with a first sealing zone, and a drainage orifice with a second sealing zone. The filter element comprises an outlet tube ...