ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,972, issued on June 17, was assigned to MOTT Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"3D gradient porous structure for phase separation utilizing additive manufacturing methods" was invented by James K. Steele (Middlefield, Conn.), Vincent P. Palumbo (East Granby, Conn.), Matthew Siok (Farmington, Conn.), Sean Kane (Cranberry Township, Pa.) and Aravind Mohanram (Avon, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are advantageous phase separator devices, and related methods of fabrication and use thereof. The present disclosure provides improved phase separator devices for phase separation of feedstreams, and improved systems/methods for ...