ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,041, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to GRAYMONT WESTERN CANADA INC. (Richmond, Canada).
"Reducing undesirable emissions from sediments via treatment with lime" was invented by Nikolas Andrei Romaniuk (Edmonton, Canada), Michael John Tate (Oregon, Ohio) and Narain Hariharan (South Jordan, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from sediments containing organic materials via treatment with lime are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the method comprises (i) providing sediments comprising a first pH less than 10.0, fermentable organic materials, and microbes configured to produ...