ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,636, issued on May 19, was assigned to Vantive US Healthcare LLC (Deerfield, Ill.) and Vantive Health GMBH (Glattpark, Switzerland).

"Water purification apparatus, system and method for controlling at least one fluid property" was invented by Olof Jansson (Vellinge, Sweden), Peter Sendelius (Staffanstorp, Sweden), Henrik Lindgren (Genarp, Sweden), Robert Hallstrom (Lund, Sweden) and Carl-Henry Orndal (Eslov, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a water purification apparatus that comprises a reverse osmosis device, RO-device, producing a purified water flow and to a corresponding method. The proposed...