US Patent Issued to EMZ-HANAUER on Jan. 27 for "Filtration device for a water-bearing household appliance" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,388, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to EMZ-HANAUER GMBH & Co. KGAA (Nabburg, Germany).

"Filtration device for a water-bearing household appliance" was invented by Georg SpieBl (Altendorf, Germany), Manfredi Signorino (Wackersdorf, Germany) and Benjamin Schemela (Schwarzenbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a filtration device, in particular for the filtration of microplastics for a water-bearing household appliance, wherein the filtration device comprises a housing in which a filter element is arranged, wherein the filter element is designed in such a way that it encloses an inner cavity which is fl...