ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,650, issued on June 10, was assigned to FIBRACAST LTD. (Hannon, Canada).
"System and method for feeding immersed membrane units" was invented by Diana Benedek (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.), Charles Bennett (Burlington, Canada) and Babak Lakghomi (Hamilton, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an immersed membrane system, the influent flows into an open membrane tank. The membrane tank can have multiple horizontally spaced immersed membrane units. The immersed membrane units may have flat sheet membrane elements within a membrane case. One or more ducts are provided in the tank for directing the flow of influent to the immersed membra...