ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,603, issued on June 3, was assigned to Ariel Scientific Innovations Ltd. (Ariel, Israel).
"Wastewater and sludge treatment device and method" was invented by Faina Nakonechny (Ariel, Israel), David Gurevich (Ariel, Israel), Yaakov Anker (Salit, Israel), Alexander Khentov (Nesher, Israel), Sergei Chefranov (Haifa, Israel) and Helena Tuchinsky (Ariel, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods and devices that are useful for processing water-including waste such as wastewater and sludge by reacting the water-including waste with an amount of ferromagnetic powder, an amount of anionic flocculant and an amount of cationic...