US Patent Issued on Jan. 13 for "Smart raft system and method for monitoring and improving water quality to mitigate algal blooms" (Virginia, Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,520,784, issued on Jan. 13.

"Smart raft system and method for monitoring and improving water quality to mitigate algal blooms" was invented by Carlos R. Villamar (Falls Church, Va.) and William H. Lewis (Claymont, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method and computer program product for monitoring and improving water quality to mitigate eutrophication or harmful algal blooms using smart rafts, including a raft made from a mycomaterial; one or more tube-shaped pods formed in the raft and configured to hold seed or media and configured with a root channel at the bottom of the pods extending through a bottom of the raft; and a s...