US Patent Issued to Donaldson on June 3 for "Filter element with seal receiver" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,724, issued on June 3, was assigned to Donaldson Co. Inc. (Bloomington, Minn.).

"Filter element with seal receiver" was invented by Gert Proost (Kessel-lo, Belgium), Kristof Decoster (Vilvoorde, Belgium), Bart Catoor (Kessel-lo, Belgium), Mathijs Verstraete (Tienen, Belgium) and Anthonius Jan-Baptist Maria Moers (Holsbeek, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filter element for insertion into a housing of a filter system. The filter element includes a filter medium pack and a seal receiver. The filter medium pack has an outer circumferential face extending between a first outer axial face and a second outer axial face, opposite th...