ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,467, issued on April 21, was assigned to ORGANO Corp. (Tokyo).

"Water treatment method and water treatment apparatus" was invented by Keisuke Sasaki (Tokyo), Mayu Abe (Tokyo), Fumio Sudo (Tokyo), Hiroshi Yamada (Tokyo) and Tsukasa Kondo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water treatment apparatus for removing dissolved oxygen contained in water to be treated includes: an anode; a cathode; and a dissolved oxygen removal chamber which is located between the anode and the cathode and filled with an ion exchanger. At least a portion of the ion exchanger filled in the dissolved oxygen removal chamber is an ion exchanger on which a m...