US Patent Issued to Colorado School of Mines on May 12 for "Optical concentrate monitoring for membrane scaling mitigation" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,063, issued on May 12, was assigned to Colorado School of Mines (Golden, Colo.).

"Optical concentrate monitoring for membrane scaling mitigation" was invented by Johan Vanneste (Golden, Colo.), Alexander Schwiebert (Golden, Colo.) and John Arthur Bush (Lakewood, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described herein for early detection of scaling during processing of liquid solutions. Particularly, the methods and systems described herein provide detection of the onset of scalant crystallization, so that measures can be deployed in a way that avoids significant scaling of membranes or other separating elements."...