Description:

#787 updated typescript to 4.7, which includes Instantiation Expressions, allowing us to update the return type of filterObject() to use a pass-through generic reference T for discerning the expected return based on the actual return type of flattenObject (as outlined in #699).

This PR resolves #699, and signifies a MINOR version increase (per Semantic Version).

Changes:

This PR makes the following changes:

• Updates filterObject() to use ReturnType<typeof flattenObject<T>> for indicating that all

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