ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,233, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Asahi Kasei K.K. (Tokyo).

"Raw material liquid concentration system" was invented by Mitsuru Fujita (Tokyo), Masato Mikawa (Tokyo) and Daisuke Hotta (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a system preventing or reducing adhesion of a raw material component to a membrane surface and increasing the recovery rate of the raw material component after concentration. A raw material liquid concentration system for a medicine production process comprising a forward osmosis membrane unit having a forward osmosis membrane, and a raw material liquid side space and an inductive solution side sp...