ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,442, issued on May 5, was assigned to TALLANO TECHNOLOGIE (Paris).

"Filtration system with collector tray" was invented by Loic Adamczak (Boulogne Billancourt, France) and Adrien Maistre (Boulogne Billancourt, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a system for capturing braking particles from a friction braking system, which includes a vacuum source, a pneumatic circuit which connects the friction braking system to the vacuum source, and a particle filtration system located on the pneumatic circuit and including a support and a filter which is mounted on the support and which, during operation, becomes clogged with particl...