US Patent Issued to NEO Water Treatment on Feb. 18 for "Cerium-lanthanum treatment method for reduction of contaminants in wastewater membrane bioreactors" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,440, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to NEO Water Treatment LLC (Greenwood Village, Colo.).

"Cerium-lanthanum treatment method for reduction of contaminants in wastewater membrane bioreactors" was invented by Pamela Leigh Cornish (White Lake, Mich.) and Mason Reames Haneline (Orange, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods of treating wastewater using a membrane bioreactor and achieving a target phosphorus concentration for the membrane permeate stream. These methods include the steps of dosing a wastewater stream with a rare earth clarifying agent and passing the dosed wastewater stream through the membrane to ob...