ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,696, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Ion removal system" was invented by Yasunari Maeda (Osaka, Japan), Ayane Kihara (Nara, Japan) and Tomohiro Akita (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ion removal system includes: an ion removal device including a hard water storage configured to store hard water and a fine bubble generator configured to generate a fine bubble to supply the hard water storage with the fine bubble, for removing a metal ion from the hard water by adsorbing the metal ion in the hard water to the fines bubble in the hard water storage an...