ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,313, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to MERI ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS GMBH (Munich).

"Method for continuous cleaning of process water in waste paper treatment with control of the content of inorganic solids" was invented by George Troubounis (Munich), Henning Laubrock (Munich), Lucas Menke (Munich) and Luis Domene Figuerola (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method and to a device for continuous cleaning of process water circulating in a device for treating waste paper. The process water is supplied, from a unit of the device, to an anaerobic reactor comprising a gas separator, and the cleaned pr...