ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,483, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to LG CHEM Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Feed side spacer and separation membrane element" was invented by Taehyeong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Dae Hun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Taeyoung Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Phill Lee (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 side spacer comprising a network structure, wherein the network structure includes a hexagonal eye, the hexagonal eye includes a pair of parallel portions parallel to a flow direction of a supply liquid, and an inclined portion disposed in a diagonal direction w...