ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,646, issued on June 10, was assigned to University of Guelph (Canada).

"Fertigation water treatment" was invented by Serge Levesque (Guelph, Canada), Thomas Graham (Guelph, Canada), Dorin Bejan (Guelph, Canada), Jamie Lawson (Guelph, Canada), Mike Dixon (Guelph, Canada) and Ping Zhang (Guelph, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for in situ electrochemical treatment of aqueous solutions used in agricultural systems, community systems and industrial systems. In aspects, is an in situ electrochemical method for the treatment of fertigation water, comprising: flowing the fertigation water through an electrochemical...