US Patent Issued to Geyser Remediation on April 29 for "Water purification apparatus and method" (Connecticut, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,369, issued on April 29, was assigned to Geyser Remediation LLC (Killingworth, Conn.).

"Water purification apparatus and method" was invented by Nikolas C.-J. Franceschi-Hofmann (Killingworth, Conn.), Brendan MacIntyre (Bethel, Conn.) and Nora Chov (Lansdale, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method of treating an aqueous solution containing impurities including a perfluoroalkyl substance and/or a polyfluoroalkyl substance, comprising introducing the aqueous solution into a batch or semi-batch photocatalytic reactor with a microparticulate catalyst configured to reduce chain length of the perfluoroalkyl substanc...