US Patent Issued to The Trustees of Princeton University on March 18 for "Biodegradation of fluorochemicals" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,423, issued on March 18, was assigned to The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, N.J.).

"Biodegradation of fluorochemicals" was invented by Peter R. Jaffe (Princeton, N.J.) and Shan Huang (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Media are described herein for the degradation and/or remediation of fluorochemicals. Briefly, a medium comprises an electron donor; a fluorochemical component; an electron acceptor; and a Feammox bacterium and/or one or more enzymes exhibiting reductive dehalogenase activity, the Feammox bacterium and/or enzyme(s) capable of fluorochemical degradation in conjunction with oxidation of electro...