ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,814, issued on May 20, was assigned to MAGNERA Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Filtration media" was invented by Ralph A. Moody III (Mooresville, N.C.), Nyle Bishop (Mooresville, N.C.), Mehmet Selcuk Sinangil (Mooresville, N.C.), Robert Garcia (Alcanar, Spain), Rainer Nawroth (L'Aleixar, Spain), Victor Gnoatto (Curitiba, Brazil) and Elisabeth Torres Cano (Barcelona, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filtration media including at least a first nonwoven fabric having at least one meltblown layer in provided. The at least one meltblown layer includes a plurality of meltblown fibers having an average diameter from about 1 to about 5 micro...