US Patent Issued to Donaldson on July 22 for "Composite media for fuel streams" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,943, issued on July 22, was assigned to Donaldson Co. Inc. (Bloomington, Minn.).

"Composite media for fuel streams" was invented by Aflal Rahmathullah (Savage, Minn.), Bradly Hauser (Minneapolis), Vijay Kapoor (Eagan, Minn.), Mike J. Madsen (Chaska, Minn.), Derek O. Jones (Andover, Minn.) and Charles Christ (Deephaven, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filter material for use in fuel-water separation has a particle filtration layer and a coalescing layer downstream of, and coupled to, the particle filtration layer. The particle filtration layer is substantially constructed of binder fibers and media fibers. The coalescing layer ...