ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,348, issued on March 17, was assigned to ATMUS FILTRATION INC. (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Advanced fuel filtration system with interlocking cartridge seal design" was invented by Connor David Oren (Columbus, Ind.), Zemin Jiang (Cookeville, Tenn.), Jayant Singh (Pune, India), Vaibhav Pimpalte (Pune, India), Chetan Ghagre (Wardha, India), Bharati Pundalik Dalavi (Ambernath, India), Sagar Padale (Pune, India), Sunny Nabhiraj Masutage (Miraj, India) and Joshua Luther Young (Livingston, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filter assembly includes a filter element and a filter housing. The filter housing includes a shell defining an inner ca...