ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,618, issued on May 27, was assigned to HACH COMPANY (Loveland, Colo.).
"Predictive model for water quality deterioration" was invented by Vishnu Vardhanan Rajasekharan (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Russell Young (Fort Collins, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment provides a method of forecasting water quality deterioration in a water distribution system, including: receiving, at an electronic device, a data set comprising measured values of a plurality of components within the water distribution system; determining, based upon algorithmic analysis of the measured values, a water quality index; and providing, based on the de...