ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,716, issued on July 14, was assigned to Evoqua Water Technologies LLC (Pittsburgh).

"Regenerative media filter with flow diffuser" was invented by Krishna Kamath (Billerica, Mass.), Li-Shiang Liang (Harvard, Mass.), Joshua Griffis (Ashburnham, Mass.), Joseph Crognale (Dedham, Mass.), Alan Charles Womer (Templeton, Mass.), Benjamin Satterfield (Ayer, Mass.) and Suthahar Manoharan (Mettur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Water filtration systems are disclosed. The water filtration systems include a regenerative media filter vessel comprising a housing, an inlet, and an outlet, a diffuser fluidly connected to the inlet and disposed...