ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,369, issued on March 17, was assigned to Brine Masters LLC (Westfield, Ind.).
"High efficiency brine maker" was invented by Clay Hildreth (Carmel, Ind.) and Andrew John Humke (Dubuque, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brine maker is provided having a substantially cuboid shape. The brine maker may include: a hopper having a top opening configured to receive a solute from above the brine maker; a partition screen separating a solute side of the hopper from a brine side of the hopper; and a plurality of solvent ports located along a bottom floor of the hopper, the solvent ports configured to direct a solvent across the bottom flo...