US Patent Issued to BP EXPLORATION OPERATING on July 15 for "Computerized control system for a desalination plant" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,812, issued on July 15, was assigned to BP EXPLORATION OPERATING COMPANY Ltd. (Middlesex, Great Britain).

"Computerized control system for a desalination plant" was invented by John Henry Crouch (Odell, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system configured to control operation of reverse osmosis (RO) array(s), nanofiltration (NF) array(s) and/or a blending system including a control panel (CP), regulatory controllers (RCs), and a supervisory controller (SC), wherein the SC is in signal communication with the CP, and with the RCs, wherein the SC is configured to: receive user inputs from the CP, and receive inputs f...