ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,419, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to MEIDENSHA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Bubble generation device and liquid filtration device" was invented by Hiroshi Noguchi (Singapore), Terutake Niwa (Singapore) and Akitoshi Nakagawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bubble generation device capable of causing bubbles to hit filtration membranes almost simultaneously includes a housing having side plates and a top plate fixed to the side plates; bubble release ports disposed therein and arranged along a longitudinal direction of the top plate; and a bubble release chamber disposed in the housing and communicated with the bubble release ports. A f...