ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,270, issued on June 24, was assigned to Donaldson Co. Inc. (Bloomington, Minn.).
"Filter elements and methods of manufacturing filter elements" was invented by Mathijs Verstraete (Tienen, Belgium) and Gert Proost (Kessel-lo, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filter element, for placement in a housing of a filter system, includes a filter medium pack and a seal arrangement having a seal and a seal carrier. The filter medium pack includes, for example, a pleated filter medium or a fluted filter medium. The seal carrier includes an axial side coupled to at least a portion of an axial face of the filter medium pack by a thermal we...