ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,698, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Evoqua Water Technologies LLC (Pittsburgh).

"Method for automatically correcting deviations from fluid metering setpoints" was invented by Calvin D. Horst (Sarasota, Fla.) and Michael Sumner Murphy (Sarasota, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of monitoring a chemical dosing subsystem for treating a fluid in a waste collection system are disclosed. The methods include deploying at least one sensor to the waste collection system, transmitting to an external controller data for a measured parameter of the fluid or treating agent, and comparing a treatment regimen determined responsive to t...