ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,847, issued on May 20, was assigned to SHANDONG UNIVERSITY (Jinan, China).
"Microalgae culturing pond-constructed wetland coupled system and method for advanced sewage purification" was invented by Jian Zhang (Jinan, China), Linlan Zhuang (Jinan, China), Mengting Li (Jinan, China), Shuang Liang (Jinan, China), Zhen Hu (Jinan, China), Huijun Xie (Jinan, China), Haiming Wu (Jinan, China) and Zizhang Guo (Jinan, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that relates to the technical field of sewage purification includes microalgae culturing pond and constructed wetland that are connected in series. A microalgae capturing filler is a...