ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,409, issued on March 17, was assigned to The Tyre Collective Ltd (London).
"Particulate collecting device" was invented by Ching Ping Hanson Cheng (London), Hugo Richardson (London), Siobhan Louise Anderson (London) and Manjeshwar Deepak Mallya (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A particulate collecting device (100) attachable to a vehicle for collecting or capturing particulates that are released from a tyre or a wheel (W) of the vehicle through wear on or against a driving surface (S) when the vehicle is driven on the driving surface. The device comprises an electrostatic filter unit (110) mountable in an operative position in...