US Patent Issued to Environmental Management Confederation on Feb. 4 for "Filter media for active field polarized media air cleaner" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,364, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Environmental Management Confederation Inc. (Princeton, N.J.).

"Filter media for active field polarized media air cleaner" was invented by Forwood C. Wiser III (Kingston, N.J.), George R. Summers (Carleton Place, Canada) and Benjamin H. Kaeppner (Carleton Place, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Filter media for an active field polarized media air cleaner includes two layers of dielectric material with a higher resistance air permeable screen sandwiched between the lower resistivity electric layers. The filter media may further include a mixed fiber filter layer having fibers from different s...