ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,371, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Beijing).
"Optimal control method for wastewater treatment process based on self-adjusting multi-task particle swarm optimization" was invented by Honggui Han (Beijing), Xing Bai (Beijing), Ying Hou (Beijing), Hongyan Yang (Beijing) and Junfei Qiao (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optimal control method for wastewater treatment process (WWTP) based on a self-adjusting multi-task particle swarm optimization (SA-MTPSO) algorithm belongs to the field of WWTP. To balance the relationship between the effluent water quality (EQ) and energy consumption (EC...