ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,193, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to LG CHEM Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Feed spacer for reducing differential pressure of reverse osmosis element, and formation nozzle" was invented by Taehyeong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Taeyoung Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Phill Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Dae Hun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Kyunghoon Min (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a feed spacer for reducing differential pressure of a reverse osmosis element, the feed spacer forming the reverse osmosis element, the feed spacer comprising a plurality of strands disposed in a mesh shape having predetermine...