ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,751, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture (Beijing).

"Intelligent low-carbon treatment and reuse system for stormwater and wastewater" was invented by Haiyan Li (Beijing), Yuqi Pan (Beijing), Yu Cheng (Beijing), Zhaoying Liu (Beijing), Yulin Li (Beijing), Chaohong Tan (Beijing), Jiayuan Xu (Beijing) and Zhengxing Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an intelligent low-carbon treatment and reuse system for stormwater and wastewater, including: a bioretention module for collecting stormwater and treating it to obtain treated stormwater; a nume...