ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,942, issued on July 22, was assigned to FEATURE-TEC (WUXI) FILTRATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD (Wuxi, China).

"Filtering and separating system and method for recycling Fe3O4 nano-particles" was invented by Bin Peng (Wuxi, China) and Xiangyang He (Wuxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a filtering and separating system and method for recycling Fe3O4 nano-particles. The system includes an original liquid tank, a first booster pump, a clustered filter, an electromagnetic filtering machine, a dynamic membrane system and a nano-particle collecting tank; and a concentrated liquid outlet of the dynamic membrane ...