ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,301, issued on May 27, was assigned to Donaldson Co. Inc. (Bloomington, Minn.).
"Filter element and method of manufacturing a filter element" was invented by Gunther Van De Poel (Waanrode, Belgium), Bart Catoor (Kessel-Lo, Belgium) and Mathijs Verstraete (Tienen, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a filter element comprising a filter medium pack and a support arrangement comprising at least a shell member, and wherein a portion of the shell member is thermally welded to a circumferential face of the filter medium pack. The present disclosure further relates to a method of manufacturing such a fil...