ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,818, issued on May 20, was assigned to Oneida Air Systems Inc (Syracuse, N.Y.).
"Benchtop dust collector" was invented by Robert M. Witter (Englewood, Fla.), Jeffrey Hill (Cicero, N.Y.), John J. Fitzsimmons (Syracuse, N.Y.), Kyle W. Groening (Syracuse, N.Y.) and Joseph Baldwin (Syracuse, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bench-top dust collector has a front or intake side where air is directed by a cowling into a pre-filter and then a final filter that are held in a frame. A rear compartment holds an array of small high velocity fans that pull the air through the filters to a plenum in the rear compartment. The filtered air in th...