US Patent Issued to BRITA on June 23 for "Filtration device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,395, issued on June 23, was assigned to BRITA SE (Taunusstein, Germany).

"Filtration device" was invented by Uwe Lang (Taunusstein, Germany) and Sabine Lang-Dress (Taunusstein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a filtration device comprising an inlet funnel with a cartridge seat, a filter cartridge placeable in the cartridge seat, and a sensing apparatus comprising sensing means for measuring at least one water characteristic. The sensing apparatus comprises an electrical circuit with a control gap and the filter cartridge comprises a bridging element, wherein the bridging element is arranged suc...