US Patent Issued to Gross-Wen Technologies on Nov. 25 for "Algae system for water treatment, bioenergy production, and resource reuse" (Iowa, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,007, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Gross-Wen Technologies Inc. (Ames, Iowa).

"Algae system for water treatment, bioenergy production, and resource reuse" was invented by Martin Gross (Boone, Iowa), Joseph Edward Zuback (Camarillo, Calif.) and Paul Simpson (Harlan, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure teaches an algal growth system. The algal growth system includes a flexible sheet material, a liquid reservoir, a mechanism to rotate the flexible sheet material, a resource reclamation device, and an enclosure. The flexible sheet material facilitates growth of a biofilm. The liquid reservoir is configured to r...