ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,718, issued on April 21, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).
"Filtration separator for magnetic particles and filtration separation method for magnetic particles" was invented by Hirofumi Hokari (Chino, Japan), Michio Nakamori (Matsumoto, Japan) and Yasunari Ikeda (Shiojiri, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filtration separator for magnetic particles includes a storage tank that stores a liquid in which magnetic particles are dispersed, and that has a bottom portion and a side wall portion, a stirring mechanism having a rotating shaft portion inserted into the storage tank in a direction crossing a face of the bottom po...