US Patent Issued to King Abdullah University of Science and Technology on Aug. 5 for "Waste water treatment system using aerobic granular sludge gravity-driven membrane system" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,142, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

"Waste water treatment system using aerobic granular sludge gravity-driven membrane system" was invented by Muhammad Ali (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Krishna Prasad Katuri (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Pascal Elias Saikaly (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is aerobic granular sludge gravity-driven membrane system, methods of making and using thereof are described. The aerobic granular sludge (AGS) integrated with a gravity-driven membrane (GDM) filtration system is an energy efficient wastewater...