ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,170, issued on May 12, was assigned to ELECTROPHOR INC. (Woodmere, N.Y.).

"Sorbent coated hollow fiber filtration method using less spent sorbent flushing liquid" was invented by Joseph L. Shmidt (Woodmere, N.Y.), Evgeniya Sergeyevna Vasil'yeva (St. Petersburg, Russia), Aleksandr Gennadievich Mitilineos (St. Petersburg, Russia), Evgeniy Orekhov (Tallinn, Estonia), Anastasia Nikolaevna Vilkova (Leningrad region g. Gatchina, Russia) and Maria Anatol'evna Frolova (St. Petersburg, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid purification system includes a raw liquid supply line with a sorbent dispenser connected to an inlet of a filtrat...