ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,513, issued on June 30, was assigned to ORGANO Corp. (Tokyo).

"Impurity acquisition system, water quality testing system, and liquid production and supply system" was invented by Kyohei Tsutano (Tokyo), Akihiko Tsuda (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Sugawara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ion exchanger unit that adsorbs impurities in a liquid to be tested, and a controller that switches between causing the flow of the liquid to be tested into the ion exchanger unit and the flow of eluent to elute the impurities adsorbed in the ion exchanger unit into the ion exchanger unit."

The patent was filed on Jan. 17, 2022, under Application No. ...