ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,823, issued on July 15, was assigned to SHANXI UNIVERSITY (Taiyuan, China).

"Low-carbon near zero emission process of industrial waste water" was invented by Huazhang Zhao (Taiyuan, China), Huifang Sun (Taiyuan, China), Liangjie Wang (Taiyuan, China), Dandan Zhu (Taiyuan, China) and Jinrui Shi (Taiyuan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low-carbon near zero emission process of industrial waste water, comprising: S1: entering industrial waste water into a pre-oxidation system to improve biodegradability of organics; S2: after treatment in the pre-oxidation unit, entering the waste water into an anaerobic biological treatment syst...