US Patent Issued to RTX BBN TECHNOLOGIES on Oct. 14 for "System and method of generating electricity in a body of water" (Massachusetts, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,644, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to RTX BBN TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"System and method of generating electricity in a body of water" was invented by Benjamin Jacob Rosenthal (Newport, R.I.), Miles Rogers (Watertown, Mass.) and Helen Scott (Watertown, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating electricity in a body of water includes providing a colony of sulfur-reducing bacteria, a colony of sulfur-oxidizing bacteria, and a colony of denitrifying bacteria submerged in the body of water. The colony of sulfur-reducing bacteria can be used to convert at least a portion of sulfates present in the body of...