ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,982, issued on April 15, was assigned to TexOPCO LLC (Houston).

"Electrodialysis systems with decreased concentration gradients at high recovery rates" was invented by Xin Li (Houston) and Ethan Demeter (The Woodlands, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are electrodialysis systems comprising a plurality of electrodialysis devices, wherein each electrodialysis device of the plurality of electrodialysis devices has a product inlet stream, a product outlet stream, a brine inlet stream, and a brine outlet stream. The product inlet stream for a first electrodialysis device comprises the brine outlet stream of a second electrodia...