ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,819, issued on May 20, was assigned to Donaldson Co. Inc. (Minneapolis).
"Filter element for filtering a fluid" was invented by Mathijs Verstraete (Tienen, Belgium), Bart Catoor (Kessel-lo, Belgium), Michael J. Van Arsdale (Apple Valley, Minn.) and Michael D. Carlson (Lakeville, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filter element for filtering a fluid passing through the filter element, the filter element having a fluid entry face and a fluid exit face and is provided with a group of first channels and a group of second channels, through which the fluid to be filtered can flow from the respective first channel into the second chann...