ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,543, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to KEMIRA OYJ (Helsinki).

"Method for estimating disturbances and giving recommendations for improving process performance" was invented by Iiris Joensuu (Espoo, Finland), Marjatta Piironen (Espoo, Finland), Torsten Haverinen-Nielsen (Espoo, Finland) and Vesa-Matti Tikkala (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a method for estimating disturbances and giving recommendations for process performance of a water intensive industrial process. The method takes into account a huge number of process variables."

The patent was filed on April 14, 2022, under Application No. 18/...