ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,118, issued on May 13, was assigned to NOURYON CHEMICALS INTERNATIONAL B.V. (Arnhem, Netherlands).

"Process for producing salt from waste aqueous streams of organic peroxides production" was invented by Maria Steensma (Arnhem, Netherlands), Martinus Catharinus Tammer (Diepenveen, Netherlands) and Claus Decker (Emmerich am Rhein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Process for producing a salt comprising NaCl and/or KCl from the aqueous effluents from one or more organic peroxide production processes, said process comprising the following steps (a) ensuring the pH of the aqueous effluents to be in the range from about 1-5, (b) sepa...