ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,692, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ORGANO Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ultrapure water production system and method for producing ultrapure water" was invented by Fumitaka Ichihara (Tokyo), Fumio Sudo (Tokyo), Tsukasa Kondo (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Sugawara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrapure water production system that has a simplified configuration and that can efficiently remove fine particles that are contained in ultrapure water is provided. Ultrapure water production system has ultrapure water supply line that is connected to point of use and that supplies ultrapure water to point of use; return line that returns the ultrapure...