ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,320, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.-Petrobras (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Universidade Tiradentes-UNIT (Aracaju, Brazil).

"Method for monitoring the precipitation of inorganic salts in aqueous systems" was invented by Leonardo Dos Santos Pereira (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Fabiane Santos Serpa (Aracaju, Brazil), Bruno Barbosa Castro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Jailton Ferreira Do Nascimento (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Gabriela Menezes Silva (Aracaju, Brazil), Eloisa Borges E Borges (Aracaju, Brazil), Gustavo Rodrigues Borges (Aracaju, Brazil), Claudio Dariva (Aracaju, Brazil), Elton Franceschi (Aracaju, Brazil) and Elvio Barreto De Melo Filho (Aracaju, Braz...