ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,799, issued on July 29, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).
"Acidic treatment liquid processing apparatus, acidic treatment liquid processing method, surface treatment system, and surface treatment method" was invented by Koji Imasaka (Tokyo), Hiroaki Mikawa (Tokyo), Kohei Kawasaki (Tokyo), Mitsuhiro Ishigaki (Tokyo), Masahiko Nagai (Tokyo), Hidehiko Tajima (Tokyo), Ayako Ureshino (Tokyo), Kaoru Egawa (Tokyo), Akihiro Sakanishi (Tokyo) and Taisuke Miyazaki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acidic treatment liquid processing apparatus includes: a tank having an interior space; a diaphragm permeable to a me...