ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,591, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to CHEMTREAT INC. (Glen Allen, Va.).

"Process cooling water system control systems and methods for iron and steelmaking applications" was invented by Faycal Finnouche (Algiers, Antigua and Barbuda) and David Oswald (Hartwell, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process cooling water (PCW) system and method for an iron or steelmaking application, the PCW system and method including: sampling a plurality of characteristics of PCW using a plurality of sensors; calculating one or more of Langelier Saturation Index (LSI) and Ryznar Stability Index (RSI) based on the plurality of characteristics using ...