US Patent Issued to Revive Environmental Technology on July 29 for "Systems and methods of regenerating activated carbon" (Ohio, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,527, issued on July 29, was assigned to Revive Environmental Technology LLC (Columbus, Ohio).

"Systems and methods of regenerating activated carbon" was invented by Ryan R. James (Columbus, Ohio), Kavitha Dasu (Powell, Ohio), Dinusha Siriwardena (Columbus, Ohio), Franco Pala (Rockland, Mass.) and Ramona Darlington Iery (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides methods for regenerating activated carbon that have been used in absorbing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in aqueous solution. In these methods, the activated carbon is treated with a solution of base in alcohol, which has been found to i...