ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,331, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to AMIAD WATER SYSTEMS LTD. (Upper Galil, Israel).
"Filtration system self cleaning mechanism" was invented by Yagil Oren (Kibbutz Kfar HaNassi, Israel), Noa Matityahu (Zichron Yaakov, Israel), Kfir Atias (Amnun, Israel), Raanan Ben Horin (Kibbutz Bet Zera, Israel) and Riki Klass (Kfar Hitim, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-cleaning mechanism for a filtration system, being disclosed, comprising a filter element positioned in a filtration chamber and a suction scanner for cleaning the filter element upon activation of a cleaning session, wherein a linear motion of the suction scanner...