ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,854, issued on April 14, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
"Filtration device, filtration method and filtration filter" was invented by Wataru Yamamoto (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Takashi Kondo (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a filtration device that can increase a filtration treatment amount by suppressing clogging of a filtration filter. A filtration device according to the present invention includes: a filtration filter that includes a filter that filters a filtration target contained in a fluid, and a frame that holds the filter; a support structure that holds the frame ...