ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,655, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Dust Co. Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Filter diagnostic system and method" was invented by Robert W. Baxter (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A baghouse filter system includes a fabric filter; a control system coupled to the bag house filter system that is configured to control filtering operations of the baghouse filter system and cleaning operations of the baghouse filter system; a plurality of data collection devices that are configured to collect data associated with a plurality of operational and cleaning parameters of the baghouse filter system; and a diagnostic system that is confi...