US Patent Issued to NIKKISO, TOHOKU UNIVERSITY on Dec. 30 for "Method for regenerating liquid to be treated, and regenerating agent for liquid to be treated" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,571, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NIKKISO Co. LTD. (Tokyo) and TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Miyagi, Japan).

"Method for regenerating liquid to be treated, and regenerating agent for liquid to be treated" was invented by Toshiaki Yoshioka (Miyagi, Japan), Tomohito Kameda (Miyagi, Japan), Fumihiko Kitagawa (Ishikawa, Japan), Yoichi Jimbo (Ishikawa, Japan) and Masayuki Kondo (Ishikawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for regenerating a liquid to be treated, the method includes bringing a lactic acid adsorbent that contains a Mg-Al-based layered double hydroxide having Mg2+ and Al3+ as constituent metals, and an amm...