ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,362, issued on March 17, was assigned to Asahi Kasei K.K. (Tokyo).

"Method for concentrating raw material solution, and system for concentrating raw material solution" was invented by Tomotaka Hashimoto (Tokyo), Yuki Suga (Tokyo), Masato Mikawa (Tokyo) and Ryoichi Takada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a concentration method and system for concentrating a raw material solution, and in which a raw material solution containing a solute and a solvent is concentrated to obtain a concentrate of the raw material solution, wherein the solvent contains water and an organic solvent. In the method and system for concentrati...