ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,466, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Eagan, Minn.).

"Reverse osmosis filtration system" was invented by Biyong Qiu (Shanghai) and Yan Liu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reverse osmosis filtration system (100, 100A, 100B, 100C), comprising: a raw water pipeline (L1); a reverse osmosis filtration unit (10, 10A, 10B, 10C) configured to filter raw water supplied by the raw water pipeline (L1); and a faucet (30, 30A, 30B, 30C) connected to the reverse osmosis filtration unit (10, 10A, 10B, 10C), wherein the faucet (30, 30A, 30B, 30C) is operable such that a water outlet (33) of the fau...