ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,194, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Cargill Inc. (Wayzata, Minn.).
"Systems and methods for treatment of hard water" was invented by Robert Scott Koefod (Maple Grove, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for treatment of hard water are disclosed that relate to combining a scale reduction device with a water softener device. In an aspect, the water softener device is an ion exchange water softener device. The systems and methods can be used to provide treated water having the same or similar performance quality compared to water produced by ion exchange water softener devices alone, while using significantly le...