US Patent Issued to Donaldson on July 7 for "System and method for deaeration" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,275, issued on July 7, was assigned to Donaldson Co. Inc. (Bloomington, Minn.).

"System and method for deaeration" was invented by Michael J. Cronin (Apple Valley, Minn.), Michael J. Gustafson (Minnetonka, Minn.), Vijay K. Kapoor (Eagan, Minn.), Mike J. Madsen (Chaska, Minn.), Daniel R. Frembgen (Savage, Minn.), Davis B. Moravec (Burnsville, Minn.), Matthew P. Goertz (Bloomington, Minn.) and Divya Panchanathan (Edina, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deaerator includes gas nucleation media and a porous barrier. The deaerator may include growth media between the gas nucleation media and the porous barrier. The deaerator may be pa...