ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,472, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Target species recovery and related systems and methods" was invented by Trevor Alan Hatton (Sudbury, Mass.), Xiao Su (Urbana, Ill.) and Cameron G. Halliday (Wokingham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The recovery of target species, and related systems and methods, are generally described."

The patent was filed on Aug. 28, 2019, under Application No. 17/272,007.

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