US Patent Issued to Solventum Intellectual Properties on June 24 for "Filter element and filter having the filter element" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,142, issued on June 24, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"Filter element and filter having the filter element" was invented by Biyong Qiu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a filter element and a filter having the filter element. The filter element comprises a filter element housing part, a water inlet disposed at the filter element housing part, a filter medium unit disposed in the filter element housing part, and a central pipe. The central pipe comprises a pure water collecting pipe and a wastewater collecting pipe, and the wastewater collecting pipe i...