ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,018, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).
"Waste treatment system and waste treatment method" was invented by Atsuhiro Yukumoto (Tokyo), Akira Noma (Tokyo), Yoshio Seiki (Tokyo), Yasumichi Aoki (Tokyo), Nobuyuki Ukai (Tokyo), Kazuhiro Kawai (Tokyo), Jun Satou (Tokyo) and Susumu Okino (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A waste treatment system 100 for performing a hydrothermal treatment of wastes includes a hydrothermal treatment device 10 for performing the hydrothermal treatment by bringing steam into contact with the wastes, a storage facility 8, 9 for storing a fuel produced from a reactant...