ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. D1,145,961, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Donaldson Co. Inc. (Bloomington, Minn.).

"Spacer" was invented by Shane Lawson (Waconia, Minn.), Christopher P. Conklin (Columbia, Md.), Benjamin C. Druecke (Hudson, Wis.), Alexander E. Mottet (Minneapolis), Kristof Decoster (Vilvoorde, Belgium), Yehya A. Elsayed (Bloomington, Minn.), Abhishek Maharia (Badnoli, India), Rohit Singh (Gurugram, India), Elena T. Ewaldz (Minneapolis) and Laurent Coustenoble (Bailleulval, France).

The patent was filed on Feb. 22, 2024, under Application No. D/929,564.

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