ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,980, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Saban Ventures PTY Ltd. (Lane Cove West, Australia).
"Droplet bandpass filter" was invented by Stephen Lea (Lane Cove West, Australia) and Phuong Tran (Lane Cove West, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A droplet bandpass filter and method of modifying droplet size distribution of a population of droplets suspended in a gas. Droplets suspended in a gas are flowed through a bandpass filter having a tortuous pathway which comprises at least one impactor region located at a position adjacent to a flow direction change. Larger droplets impact at the impactor region while smaller droplets re...