ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,279, issued on June 24, was assigned to BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY (Beijing).

"System and method for cooperatively treating water and gas to reduce pollutants and carbon emission" was invented by Hong Yao (Beijing), Jinyuan Ma (Beijing), Sheng Tian (Beijing), Xin Bao (Beijing), Liru Fan (Beijing), Anming Yang (Beijing) and Liang Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for cooperatively treating water and gas to reduce pollutants and carbon emission. The system includes a flue gas pre-treatment unit, a wastewater pre-treatment unit, a gas-water cooperative cleaning unit, a remaining water treatment unit, and...