US Patent Issued to SUZHOU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on Dec. 30 for "Method for phosphorus removal and recovery using organic carbon source of urban sewage" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,380, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SUZHOU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Suzhou, China).

"Method for phosphorus removal and recovery using organic carbon source of urban sewage" was invented by Zhen Bi (Suzhou, China), Yong Huang (Suzhou, China), Yang Pan (Suzhou, China) and Xiang Li (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for phosphorus removal and recovery using an organic carbon source of urban sewage, including: first filling a biofilm reactor with sewage; stirring under anaerobic conditions, phosphorus being released from a polyphosphate biofilm using an organic carbon source in the sewage; discharging...