ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,815, issued on July 15, was assigned to UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY (Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates).

"Method and system for sustainable brine treatment and heavy metal purification using recycled carbon fiber" was invented by Ameera Mohammad (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates), Salem Alzahmi (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates), Fatemeh Bahaeddin (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates) and Waleed Ahmed (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed a method and system for utilizing carbon fibres for purification of rejected brine solution comprising thermally recycling carbon fibres and mechanically reducing the recyc...