US Patent Issued to INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE on Sept. 9 for "Systems and processes for decontaminating an aqueous flow contaminated with munitions contaminants" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,073, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Quebec, Canada).

"Systems and processes for decontaminating an aqueous flow contaminated with munitions contaminants" was invented by Richard Martel (Quebec, Canada) and Luc Trepanier (Quebec, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and processes for treating a contaminated aqueous flow which includes contaminants, such as munitions contaminants including metallic contaminants, energetic material contaminants, and/or propellant contaminants, are disclosed. The systems include an adsorption layer which includes bone char particulates, titani...