US Patent Issued to Kimre on Jan. 13 for "Fiber bed filter and mist eliminator system with enhanced drainage" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,663, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Kimre Inc. (Homestead, Fla.).

"Fiber bed filter and mist eliminator system with enhanced drainage" was invented by George C. Pedersen Jr. (Coral Gables, Fla.), Miles Valentine (Merritt Island, Fla.) and George C. Pedersen (Cutler Bay, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber bed assembly and mist eliminator system operable to collect a liquid phase from a gas stream has a fiber bed with first and second collection layers of dense collection media having randomly positioned fibers. An intermediate drainage layer disposed between and abutting the first and second collection layers has drainage...