ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,471, issued on May 6, was assigned to Changzhou University (Changzhou, China) and Changzhou ZhenBang Chemical Manufacturing Co. LTD. (Changzhou, China).

"Flocculant for catalytic decomposition of flue gas desulfurization wastewater treatment" was invented by Haiqun Chen (Changzhou, China), Guangyu He (Changzhou, China), Yi Cao (Changzhou, China), Kun Wang (Changzhou, China), Bin Ren (Changzhou, China), Zhichun Cao (Changzhou, China), Qun Chen (Changzhou, China), Xingyue Qian (Changzhou, China), Jiawei Xia (Changzhou, China) and Jingjing Yuan (Changzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a flocculant ...