US Patent Issued to Porifera on May 26 for "Methods and systems for concentrating acetic acid solutions with a multi-tier, ultrahigh pressure reverse osmosis" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,404, issued on May 26, was assigned to Porifera Inc. (San Leandro, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for concentrating acetic acid solutions with a multi-tier, ultrahigh pressure reverse osmosis" was invented by Charles Knight Benton (Berkley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples relate to systems and methods for concentrating acetic acid solutions using multi-tier ultrahigh pressure ("UHP") reverse osmosis. Along with an acetic acid product having a concentration of at least 25 weight percent (wt %), the systems and methods disclosed herein simultaneously provide water with an acetic acid concentration of 2 wt % or less in at l...