ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,037, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Industrial Technology Research Institute (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Wastewater treatment system and cleaning method thereof" was invented by Guan-You Lin (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Yi-Fong Pan (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Sin-Yi Huang (Miaoli County, Taiwan) and Hsin-Ju Yang (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a system for treating wastewater and a cleaning method thereof. The wastewater treatment system includes: a wastewater compartment, a first electrode, a second electrode, an acid compartment, a base compartment, an acid supply apparatus, a base supply apparatus, a control appara...