ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,131, issued on March 17, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Transmembrane pressure difference inference device and diffused air amount control device" was invented by Hiroyuki Kobayashi (Hyogo, Japan) and Nobukazu Suzuki (Hyogo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To appropriately infer changes over time in transmembrane pressure to perform an appropriate membrane filtration operation, without being bound by typical approach regarding the diffused air volume control. An inference device (2) includes: an input data acquisition section (21) configured to acquire input data derived from operation data that is measured durin...