ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,147, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou, China).

"Method for enhanced denitrification and device thereof" was invented by Fangang Meng (Guangdong, China), Yue Fu (Guangdong, China) and Ronghua Xu (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention discloses a method for enhanced denitrification and a device thereof. The device comprises an anoxic tank, an aerobic tank and a carbon source booster connected in sequence, and an output end of the carbon source booster is then connected with the anoxic tank; a plurality of membrane contactors are fixed inside the carbon source booster, the me...