US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force on July 29 for "System and apparatus for removing magnetic particles from a moving HVAC air stream" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,558, issued on July 29, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio).

"System and apparatus for removing magnetic particles from a moving HVAC air stream" was invented by Bill Song (Ellicott City, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for removing magnetic particles from a moving air stream. The system has magnetic collectors disposed in the air stream. The collectors may comprise mutually parallel motor driven rollers spaced which interact with the moving air stream. The rollers are optionally grooved or finned to provide for accumulation of collected pa...