ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,733, issued on June 3, was assigned to 1934612 Ontario Inc..
"Systems and methods of marker based direct integrity testing of membranes" was invented by Anthony L. Powell (London, Canada) and Brian E. Butters (London, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates, according to some embodiments, to methods of marker based direct integrity testing of at least one membrane comprising: (a) dosing a feed fluid of a loop with at least one marker comprising at least one challenge particle, the loop comprising: the feed fluid; a pump comprising an outlet stream; a membrane module comprising the at least one membrane and...