ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,000, issued on July 22, was assigned to RECHERCHE 2000 INC. (Montreal).

"Methods and systems for detecting contamination in electrolysis cells" was invented by Said Berriah (Laval, Canada), Helmut Lademann (Hurth, Germany) and Gilles J. Tremblay (Montreal, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Real-time data from cells is recorded during operation of an electrolyzer. Synthetic data is generated based on historical data of the electrolyzer and the cells, the synthetic data comprising synthetic cell voltages and synthetic product output flow, synthetic anolyte pH, feed brine pH, or oxygen in chlorine gas concentration of the electrolyz...