US Patent Issued to ANDRITZ on March 31 for "Method for regulating the addition of a flocculant to a sludge" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,023, issued on March 31, was assigned to ANDRITZ AG (Graz, Austria).

"Method for regulating the addition of a flocculant to a sludge" was invented by Alexander Tanzer (Graz, Austria) and Christoph Spielmann (Hitzendorf, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for controlling the addition of a flocculant to a sludge, wherein the sludge is dewatered and images are made of the dewatered sludge and/or the dewatered liquid with a camera system. It is characterised in that the images are evaluated with a computer-implemented computational model that has previously been trained with a training data set, whe...