US Patent Issued to The Texas A&M University System, Chevron U.S.A. on July 15 for "Method and system for waste treatment" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,821, issued on July 15, was assigned to The Texas A&M University System (College Station, Texas) and Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (Richmond, Calif.).

"Method and system for waste treatment" was invented by Suresh D. Pillai (College Station, Texas), David Staack (College Station, Texas), John Lassalle (College Station, Texas), Thomas Hoelen (Berkeley, Calif.) and Paul Bireta (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of waste treatment includes treating partially-dewatered matrix with a first electron-beam radiation dose. The treated partially-dewatered matrix is transferred to a digester where the treated partially-dewatered matrix is s...