ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,820, issued on July 15, was assigned to CHEMTREAT INC. (Glen Allen, Va.).
"Systems and methods for online control of a chemical treatment solution using scale saturation indices" was invented by Kevin Boudreaux (Sioux Falls, S.D.), Bill Gonzalez (Glenwood, N.J.), Kerry Killough (Cypress, Texas), Faycal Finnouche (Algiers, Algeria) and David Oswald (Hartwell, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for applying a chemical treatment solution to a process stream in an industrial processing system while the system is online. The method includes measuring a real-time pH of the process stream, determining a dosage of the che...