US Patent Issued to EMD Millipore on June 24 for "Spiral wound filtration device and methods of manufacture" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,284, issued on June 24, was assigned to EMD Millipore Corp. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Spiral wound filtration device and methods of manufacture" was invented by Nathan Landry (Burlington, Mass.), Gregory Straeffer (Burlington, Mass.) and Matthew Natale (Burlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spiral wound membrane module, comprising a perforated core having an axially extending internal bore; at least one membrane packet comprising a folded membrane sheet defining a first outer face, a first inner face, a second outer face and a second inner face, the fold of the folded membrane sheet being a leading end of the membrane packet...