Patents Issued the Week of August 17-21

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U.S. Patent No. 12,709,840 entitled “Predictive and Real Time Process Intervention Involving a Multi-Component Defoamer Feed Unit” issued August 18, 2026 to Buckman Laboratories International, Inc. of Memphis, Tennessee. Invented by Glenn Mudaly of Mechanicsville, Virginia, and Stephen Skirius, Deborah Marais, Rohini Kanwar, Dimitri Kouznetsov, Daniel Paik, Yanran Xu, Shunong Yang all of Memphis, Tennessee. Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for proactive intervention in an industrial process involving a defoamer composition. Learning models are iteratively trained using historical input data sets comprising directly measured variables from the industrial process and correlations between combinations of the input data and respective process states. For a current input data set associated with the industrial process, and responsive to detected process attributes, an intervention event is determined with respect to at least a first defoamer component in a current composition. Models are utilized to predict, responsive to the intervention event, changes in target values within a specified range of target values for other components in the current composition and/or for directly measured variables as corresponding with a specified process state. Automatic control is performed for respective actuators to produce a new defoamer composition, and as needed to other actuators for the directly measured variables.

U.S. Patent No. D1,143,439 entitled “Shoe Disinfecting Device” issued August 18, 2026 to DG Technologies LLC of Ooltewah, Tennessee. Invented by Dillon George also of Ooltewah, Tennessee. Claims: The ornamental design for a shoe disinfecting device as shown and described.