Patent 10173214 was granted and assigned to Compass Minerals on January, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Novel water softening products and methods of treating hard water are provided. The products comprise a salt and a metal chelating agent. The products are useful for regenerating ion exchange material in a water softening system and providing softened water containing both sodium and potassium ions, while having dramatically increased efficiencies over prior art products.