ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,701, issued on Feb. 10.
"Air cleaner frame" was invented by Forwood C. Wiser III (Kingston, N.J.), Aditya A. Patel (Iselin, N.J.) and George Robert Summers (Carleton Place, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air filter has a mechanism for preventing blow-by around a perimeter of the filter. The air filter has two rigid frames surrounding a filter and at least one of the rigid frames comprises a brush seal track with a brush seal therein. The air filter includes a latching mechanism to engage the rigid frames to each other and a handle for installation and removal."
The patent was filed on Aug. 28, 2018, under Application No. 1...