ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,689, issued on April 14, was assigned to Asahi Kasei K.K. (Tokyo).
"Organic material liquid dehydration method" was invented by Takahiro Osaki (Tokyo), Yuji Katayama (Tokyo), Ryoichi Takada (Tokyo) and Keitaro Suzumura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for processing a feed solution, which is an organic solution containing a small amount of water, using forward osmosis under a non-heated condition to obtain a dehydrated feed solution without causing degradation or change in quality of a solute. This method is for dehydrating a feed solution containing a first organic solvent, water, and a first solute, and c...