ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,225, issued on July 15, was assigned to Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Dallas).

"System and methods for improved anaerobic digestion" was invented by David Lloyd Parry (Heber City, Utah) and Ester Rus Perez (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for improving performance of anaerobic digestion by post-anaerobic digestion processing. The post-anaerobic digestion processing includes introducing a digestate to post-anaerobic digestion microorganisms downstream of an anaerobic digestion process, wherein the digestate is a product of anaerobic digestion and the post-anaerobic...