ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,540, issued on July 1, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Waste separating system, activated sludge treatment system, waste separating method, and activated sludge treatment method" was invented by Soichiro Yatsugi (Amagasaki, Japan), Yoshio Kitagawa (Amagasaki, Japan) and Shinya Nagae (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A waste separating system includes: a first waste separating apparatus 4 and a second waste separating apparatus 5 each configured to separate waste S from treatment target water W1, the first waste separating apparatus 4 including a first filter 41 with a first opening size, the second waste separating a...