ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,526, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Nanchang Hangkong University (Nanchang, China).

"Method for removing organic pollutants from water bodies by activating persulfate with nutrient-enhanced soybean sprout-based biochar" was invented by Jiaxin Cao (Jiujiang, China), Suhua Chen (Nanchang, China), Shanshan Dong (Shangrao, China), Helin Hua (Nanchang, China), Qiugen Zhang (Nanchang, China) and Xianhua Qiu (Nanchang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for removing organic pollutants from water bodies by activating persulfate with nutrient-enhanced soybean sprout-based biochar involves a method for removing organic pollutant...