US Patent Issued to Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama, for and on Behalf of The University of Alabama In Huntsville on July 1 for "Plasmon-enhanced catalytic ozonation for recalcitrant water pollutant removal" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,539, issued on July 1, was assigned to Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama, for and on Behalf of The University of Alabama In Huntsville (Huntsville, Ala.).

"Plasmon-enhanced catalytic ozonation for recalcitrant water pollutant removal" was invented by Tingtang Wu (Madison, Ala.), Wenwen Yang (Jiangsu, China) and Yu Lei (Madison, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to method of treating water/wastewater using a plasmon-enhanced catalytic ozonation process. Water/wastewater often contains numerous pollutants, some of which are particularly difficult and inefficient to remove and require ene...