US Patent Issued to Echo Scientific on Aug. 26 for "Trapping and sequestering of contaminants with prehydrated microparticles" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,282, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Echo Scientific LLC (Pittsburgh).

"Trapping and sequestering of contaminants with prehydrated microparticles" was invented by Donald J. Wagner II (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of trapping and removing contaminants from a source of contamination using a microparticle media includes the steps of: providing the microparticle media, wherein the microparticle media includes a plurality of microparticles, and wherein each of the microparticles includes a substrate having pores; prehydrating the pores of the microparticles by mixing the microparticle media with at least one of a ...