ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,172, issued on May 12, was assigned to Joma-Polytec GmbH (Bodelshausen, Germany).
"Liquid separator" was invented by Stefan Heinz (Bodelshausen, Germany), Isabelle Kummerle (Hechingen, Germany), Sven Bulach (Hechingen, Germany), Oliver Vollmer (Rottenburg, Germany) and Simon Kummerle (Mossingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid separator (10) for separating liquid from a gas-liquid mixture has a housing (12), an inlet (14), an outlet (16), a flow path (18) connecting the inlet (14) to the outlet (16), and a separation device (20), arranged in the flow path (18), for liquid separation, wherein a diverting element (22) is...