ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,890, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to CAMERON INTERNATIONAL Corp. (Houston).

"Digital seawater processing" was invented by Shu Pan (Houston), Oleg O. Medvedev (Missouri City, Texas), Robert Charles William Weston (Berkshire, Great Britain) and Marcus Suzart Ungaretti Rossi (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of operating membrane processes, such as seawater purification processes, are described herein. The methods generally include flowing seawater into a membrane purification process; recovering purified seawater and concentrated seawater from the membrane purification process; sensing operating parameters of the membr...