US Patent Issued to Donaldson on Sept. 9 for "Fluid filtration apparatuses, systems, and methods" (Minnesota, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,397, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Donaldson Co. Inc. (Bloomington, Minn.).

"Fluid filtration apparatuses, systems, and methods" was invented by Matthew P. Goertz (Bloomington, Minn.), Andrew J. Dallas (Lakeville, Minn.), Derek O. Jones (Andover, Minn.) and Yehya Elsayed (Dearborn, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filter including a first flow face extending along a lateral direction and a transverse direction of the filter, wherein the first flow face includes at least one contaminant retention layer first edge and at least one flow defining layer first edge, a second flow face spaced in an axial direction from the first...