ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,747, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to OFEK ESHKOLOT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT LTD. (Karmiel, Israel), CARMEL HAIFA UNIVERSITY ECONOMIC CORPORATION LTD. (Haifa, Israel), SINTEF OCEAN AS (Trondheim, Norway) and UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK (Odense M, Denmark).

"System and method for removing microparticles and nanoparticles from water using gelatinous zooplankton mucus" was invented by Isam Sabbah (Shefa-Am, Israel), Eric A. Ben David (Karmiel, Israel), Elias Haddad (Haifa, Israel), Maryana Habibi (Kfar-Yasif, Israel), Hila Dror (Ra'anana, Israel), Dror Angel (Moshav Shorashim, Israel), Andrew M. Booth (Trondheim, Norway) and Jamileh Javidpour (Altenholz, Germany).

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