US Patent Issued to GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY on March 18 for "Portable membrane filtration" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,663, issued on March 18, was assigned to GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY (Washington).

"Portable membrane filtration" was invented by Michael Jeffrey Anderson (Troy, Mich.), Jeremy Stephen Walker (Oakland, Mich.) and James Saye Dusenbury IV (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable filtration system is described. The system may comprise: a mixing portion, comprising: a pump adaptor and a contaminant regulator. The pump adaptor may comprise: an upper plate, a lower plate, and a screen. The screen may axially extend between the upper and lower plates, wherein the upper plate, t...