US Patent Issued to EMD Millipore on Feb. 18 for "Radial-path filter elements, systems and methods of using same" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,737, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to EMD Millipore Corp. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Radial-path filter elements, systems and methods of using same" was invented by Jonathan Steen (Burlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a filter element (500) having a radial permeate discharge path (550). The filter element generally includes a closed membrane structure (510) wrapped about a core (530) in reciprocating clockwise and counterclockwise directions, forming semicircular folds of membrane about the core. The semicircular folds of membrane have opposingly situated apical ends (560) separated by a gap. T...