US Patent Issued to XFINIO on Dec. 3 for "Pleated media for a conical shaped filter element" (Minnesota, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,157,084, issued on Dec. 3, was assigned to XFINIO LLC (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Pleated media for a conical shaped filter element" was invented by Majid Zia (White Bear Lake, Minn.), Michael Spearman (The Woodlands, Texas), Allan Alden (Stacy, Minn.) and Martin Gene Miller (The Woodlands, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A frusto-conical filter includes at least one layer of a filtering material, wherein one or more layers of the at least one layer of a filtering material comprises a plurality of pleats. Each of the pleats has a center axis which essentially maintains a constant distance from the center axis of its adjoining pleats. The med...