US Patent Issued to Ariel Scientific Innovations on July 1 for "Wastewater treatment device and method" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,542, issued on July 1, was assigned to Ariel Scientific Innovations Ltd. (Ariel, Israel).

"Wastewater treatment device and method" was invented by Yaakov Anker (Salit, Israel) and Alexander Gimburg (Itamar, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods and devices that are useful for processing wastewater, such as stormwater runoff, greywater, blackwater and combinations thereof. In some embodiments of the devices, water is drawn from relatively deep in a microbial processing container, aerated with a Venturi air pump, and subsequently expelled to a relatively shallow part of the microbial processing container."

The pat...