ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,639, issued on May 19, was assigned to EVOVE LTD (Manchester, Great Britain).

"Spacer for a spiral wound membrane" was invented by Kangsheng Liu (Manchester, Great Britain), Tom Pugh (Manchester, Great Britain) and Tristan Philips (Manchester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component for a spiral wound membrane, suitably for water filtration. The component includes an integrally formed non-uniform lattice structure. The lattice structure includes a first and second repeating unit cell, wherein the first and second unit cell are different."

The patent was filed on March 9, 2022, under Application No. 18/280,878.

*For ...