ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,691, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ORGANO Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ultrapure water supply system, control device, and program" was invented by Kyohei Tsutano (Tokyo), Satoshi Nakai (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Sugawara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Distribution pipe for conducting ultrapure water from ultrapure water production facility to cleaning apparatus treatment unit provided on distribution pipe, distribution pipe for conducting ultrapure water to cleaning apparatus branches from distribution pipe between ultrapure water production facility and treatment unit, water amount controller provided in a first branch portion where distribut...