US Patent Issued to KUWAIT INSTITUTE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH on Aug. 5 for "Wetland system for treatment of wastewater brine" (Kuwaiti Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,144, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to KUWAIT INSTITUTE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH (Safat, Kuwait).

"Wetland system for treatment of wastewater brine" was invented by Mishari Mohammad Khajah (Safat, Kuwait) and Mohd Elmuntasir Ebrahim Ahmed (Safat, Kuwait).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wetland system for treatment of wastewater comprises first and second vertical constructed wetlands connected in series, the first and second vertical constructed wetlands each including a bottom drainage layer, a main filter layer above the drainage layer, and a distribution layer above the main filter layer comprising a plant, wherein the bottom draina...