ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,376, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Moving bed biofilm reactor" was invented by Yi-Hong Liu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Cheng-Chin Chang (Miaoli County, Taiwan), Ting-Ting Chang (Taichung, Taiwan) and Kuan-Foo Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A moving bed biofilm reactor includes a tank body, a first tube, a second tube, a first guiding structure, a second guiding structure and a return pipe. A reaction zone is formed in the tank body by the first tube and the second tube. A three-phase separation zone is formed in the tank body by the first guiding s...