ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,624, issued on April 7, was assigned to VALMET AB (Sundsvall, Sweden).
"Water and air separation device for removing air from a whitewater spray" was invented by Lars Hellstrom (Karlstad, Sweden) and Ruben Wetind (Alno, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a water and air separation device (100) comprising-an entry portion (10) having a receiving inlet (11), -a guide portion (20) comprising-a housing (24), -a separation chamber (40), -an inlet (21), -a plurality of guide channels (12) for transporting whitewater spray into the separation chamber, -a liquid outlet (22), -a gas outlet (23), and wherein...