ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,837, issued on May 20, was assigned to National Cheng Kung University (Tainan, Taiwan).

"Water treatment composition with catalytic material and an oxidant and method of use" was invented by Wei-Hsin Chen (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Kuan-Ting Lee (Tainan, Taiwan), Kuan-Yu Ho (Tainan, Taiwan) and Shuenn-Ren Liou (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water treatment composition for treating organic wastewater is provided. The water treatment composition includes a bulk catalytic material and an oxidant. The bulk catalytic material includes iron atoms or ions, manganese atoms or ions, and magnesium atoms or ions."

The patent was fi...