ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,192, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SAUDI WATER AUTHORITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Method and system for extraction of minerals based on divalent cations from brine" was invented by Ahmed Saleh Mohammed Alamoudi (Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia), Mohammed Farooque Ayumantakath (Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia), Nikolay Voutchkov (Winter Springs, Fla.), Seungwon Ihm (Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia), Christopher Michael Fellows (Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia) and Eslam Alwaznani (Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for producing minerals from divalent ion-containing brine stream includes rejecting sulfate from a divalent-io...