ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,358, issued on March 17, was assigned to University of Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Liquid bath air filter" was invented by Paul R. Dominguez-Gutierrez (Gainesville, Fla.) and Tania Quesada (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid bath air filter (100), including: an air inlet tube (102) that defines an air inlet passage (108); a filtrate chamber body (120) that defines a filtrate chamber (142) configured to hold a liquid in a bottom thereof; and a flow laminator (150) configured to: receive air from the air inlet passage; be submerged in the liquid present in the filtrate chamber when the...