ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,131, issued on May 20, was assigned to Oceanit Laboratories Inc. (Honolulu).

"Modular artificial intelligence-driven plasma gasification process for resource recovery" was invented by Glen Nakafuji (Honolulu), Vinod Veedu (Houston), Erika Brown (Kailua, Hawaii), Ganesh Arumugam (Honolulu), Matthew Williams (Honolulu) and Bryce Davis (Kapolei, Hawaii).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are novel devices, systems, and methods for resource recovery from various feed streams, including both liquid and solid waste streams. Specifically disclosed is a plasma gasification unit and/or system operated or controlled by artificial i...