ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,606, issued on June 23, was assigned to ATMUS FILTRATION INC. (Nashville, Tenn.).
"Filter cartridge retention feature" was invented by Robert A. Bannister (Ames, Iowa), Sudhindra Palaxa Arakeri (Shahapur, India), Jayant Singh (Pune, India), Pravin Shantinath Kadam (Kolhapur, India) and Joshua Luther Young (Livingston, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid filtration system is provided. The filtration system includes a filter head and a filter cartridge configured to be removably coupled to the filter head. The filter cartridge includes a shell housing and a filter element. The shell housing defines a first housing end, a seco...