ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,801, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Finoric LLC (Beasley, Texas).

"Extended- and multimodal-release compositions" was invented by Daniel R. Dreyer (Rosenberg, Texas), Pious Kurian (Sugar Land, Texas) and Ambrish Kamdar (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are extended- and multimodal-release compositions for inhibiting scale in an industrial water system. In an example, an extended-release composition for inhibiting scale in an industrial water system includes a solid, particulate scale inhibitor. The solid, particular scale inhibitor may include a phosphonate, a carboxylate, or a combination thereof...