US Patent Issued to Kemira on Aug. 26 for "Method of monitoring and optionally controlling removal of microplastics from microplastic containing waters" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,053, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Kemira Oyj (Helsinki).

"Method of monitoring and optionally controlling removal of microplastics from microplastic containing waters" was invented by Outi Gronfors (Espoo, Finland), Mehrdad Hesampour (Espoo, Finland), Katriina Rajala (Espoo, Finland) and Lenita Lindberg (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of monitoring and optionally controlling removal of microplastics from microplastic containing raw water, drinking water, storm water, water originating from melted snow, surface water, effluent of industrial wastewater treatment plants, eff...