ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,363, issued on March 17, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Membrane treatment apparatus" was invented by Yasuhiro Okawa (Hyogo, Japan), Yoichi Okumura (Hyogo, Japan), Hiroki Tomita (Hyogo, Japan), Jun Maeda (Hyogo, Japan) and Hiroyuki Kobayashi (Hyogo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A membrane treatment apparatus (1) comprising: a plurality of flat membrane elements (2) which are immersed in a liquid to be treated, disposed side by side in the first direction so that membrane surfaces face each other; a supporting member (8) for holding the flat membrane element (2) provided at an end part of the flat membrane elem...