US Patent Issued to Nanjing University on June 17 for "Compact rotary algae biofilm reactor" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,972, issued on June 17, was assigned to Nanjing University (Nanjing, China).

"Compact rotary algae biofilm reactor" was invented by Yuan Lin (Nanjing, China), Yueying Liu (Nanjing, China), Ke Xu (Nanjing, China), Yuexin Yu (Nanjing, China), Liye Wang (Nanjing, China), Yanru Wang (Nanjing, China) and Hongqiang Ren (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compact rotary algae biofilm reactor includes an algae biofilm module and a light guide module. The algae biofilm module includes a plurality of rotary members and a reaction tank. In the rotary member, an algae biofilm growth carrier and a power transmission belt are wound on...