US Patent Issued to Rio Resources on Sept. 9 for "Methods and apparatus for treatment and purification of wastewater" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,084, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Rio Resources LLC (New Braunfels, Texas).

"Methods and apparatus for treatment and purification of wastewater" was invented by Dale R. Yates (Spring Branch, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of treating oil and gas produced water may include: receiving produced water from one or more wells; separating an aqueous portion of the produced water from oil and solids included in the produced water in order to provide recovered water; performing anaerobic bio-digestion of organic matter included in the produced water using a biomass mixture of anaerobic bacteria obtained from a plurality ...