ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,251, issued on May 27, was assigned to ReAqua Solutions LLC (Midland, Texas).

"Method and packaged system for filtering water" was invented by Farid Gozashti (Abilene, Texas), Erik Gregersen (Midland, Texas), Brett Gill (Houston) and Roger Krumrey (Porter, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for reconditioning contaminated water includes a plurality of filter tanks, each filter tank configured to hold a media mixture comprising media particles to which contaminants adhere when the contaminated water is pumped through the filter tanks and a feed water pump to pump the contaminated water through the plurality of filter tanks....