ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,287, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Water softening intercalation materials" was invented by Munir M. Besli (San Jose, Calif.), Saravanan Kuppan (San Jose, Calif.), Vikram Pande (San Jose, Calif.), Sondra Hellstrom (East Palo Alto, Calif.) and Jake Christensen (Elk Grove, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode for use in a device configured to remove ions from a solution. The electrode includes an intercalation material including a binary transition metal Prussian blue analogue compound, a ternary transition metal Prussian blue analogue compound, or a combination thereof. The bin...