ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,746, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Pentair Filtration Solutions LLC (Hanover Park, Ill.).
"Water ionization system and method" was invented by James Cornwell (Oakdale, Minn.), Zack Schmidt (Oakdale, Minn.), John Krueger (Minneapolis) and Brian Sheehan (Minneapolis).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing an ionized water product for coffee comprises the steps of introducing source water to an ionization system, passing the source water through one or more reaction vessels, wherein one or more ionic species are introduced into the source water, and combining products of one or more reaction vessels to produce the ion...