ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,701, issued on May 19, was assigned to Luxnara Yaovaphankul (Samut Prakarn, Thailand).

"Compact disc stack cyclone separator" was invented by Luxnara Yaovaphankul (Samut Prakarn, Thailand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compact disc stack cyclone separator includes: a fluid inlet; a vortex generator which generates a forced vortex; a conical or cylindrical vortex generating chamber; a separation chamber which is a cavity formed by downstream open ends of stacked truncated cones; narrow gaps between the stacked truncated cones, a collecting channel for heavy phrase fluid from the gaps between the stacked truncated cones which installe...