ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,979, issued on March 11, was assigned to Evoqua Water Technologies LLC (Pittsburgh).

"Method and system for providing ultrapure water with flexible lamp configuration" was invented by Christopher Hall (Colorado Springs, Colo.) and Bruce Lee Coulter (Rockford, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system of providing ultrapure water for semiconductor fabrication operations is provided. The water is treated by utilizing a free radical scavenging system. The free radical scavenging system can utilize actinic radiation with a free radical precursor compound, such as ammonium persulfate. The ultrapure water may be further trea...