ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,499, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Wika Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG (Klingenberg, Germany).
"Membrane device with layer structure" was invented by Konrad Schwanitz (Aschaffenburg, Germany), Michael Zoeller (Klingenberg, Germany), Lorenz Kehrer (Grossostheim, Germany) and Marco Langenschwarz (Moenchberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A membrane device/membrane having a flexible membrane section. A first side of the membrane section is exposed to a process medium and a second side has a layer structure, which includes at least a first layer and a second layer. The first layer has a coefficient of thermal expansion, the ...