ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,840, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Buckman Laboratories International Inc. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Predictive and real time process intervention involving a multi-component defoamer feed unit" was invented by Glenn Mudaly (Mechanicsville, Va.), Stephen Skirius (Memphis, Tenn.), Deborah Marais (Memphis, Tenn.), Rohini Kanwar (Memphis, Tenn.), Dimitri Kouznetsov (Memphis, Tenn.), Daniel Paik (Memphis, Tenn.), Yanran Xu (Memphis, Tenn.) and Shunong Yang (Memphis, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed herein for proactive intervention in an industrial process involving a defoamer composition. Learning mod...