US Patent Issued to CALGON CARBON on Sept. 29 for "Method of characterizing a sorbent" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,531, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to CALGON CARBON Corp. (Moon Township, Pa.).

"Method of characterizing a sorbent" was invented by Jason Paul Mazzoccoli (Pittsburgh), Christopher Bennett Dixon (Pittsburgh), Timothy Robert McClelland (Pittsburgh) and Ryan William Walker (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method to characterize a sorbent. The method may provide a sorbent, suspend the sorbent in a fluid, stir the sorbent in the fluid, filter the sorbent from the fluid to isolate a filtrate, measure the electrical conductivity of the filtrate, and measure the alkalinity of the filtrate."

The patent was ...