ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,552, issued on March 25, was assigned to TORAY INDUSTRIES Inc. (Tokyo).
"Separation membrane element" was invented by Shu Taniguchi (Otsu, Japan), Kentaro Takagi (Otsu, Japan) and Takeshi Konda (Otsu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a separation membrane element including a supply-side channel member, in which: the supply-side channel member has a net shape in which plural fibrous rows X including fibrous objects A and plural fibrous rows Y including fibrous objects B cross each other sterically to form intersections; at least one of the fibrous objects A and the fibrous objects B have a large d...