ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,364, issued on April 29.
"System and method for extracting boron from feed water" was invented by Kirk M. Pumphrey (San Jose, Calif.), Kenneth Aoki (Woodland, Calif.) and Darrell R. Aoki (Woodland, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for extracting boron from feed water, boron is extracted from feed water received as irrigation runoff water from an agricultural source at a pressurized vessel located at a first location, the pressurized vessel including a boron-selective resin bed. The pressurized vessel is uncoupled from the agricultural source, wherein the boron-selective resin bed is boron-saturated. The pressurized ve...