US Patent Issued to Emerald Environmental Services on May 20 for "Petroleum impacted absorbent material handling and disposal systems and methods" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,138, issued on May 20, was assigned to Emerald Environmental Services Inc. (Kent, Ohio).

"Petroleum impacted absorbent material handling and disposal systems and methods" was invented by Scott Hershberger (Kent, Ohio) and Brian T. Grimm (Kent, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating an alternative fuel, the method including providing at least one petroleum impacted material, identifying and classifying the at least one petroleum impacted material, wherein the at least one petroleum impacted material is classified as acceptable or unacceptable, optionally, rejecting any of the at least one petroleum material classif...