US Patent Issued to UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT, AS REPRESENTED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE U.S. EPA on Aug. 12 for "Thermomechanochemical waste treatment" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,710, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT, AS REPRESENTED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE U.S. EPA (Washington).

"Thermomechanochemical waste treatment" was invented by Andrew Richard Whitehill (Durham, N.C.), Eben Daniel Thoma (Cary, N.C.), Paul Lemieux (Cary, N.C.), Mark Higuchi (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Chelsea Berg (Durham, N.C.), Brian K. Gullett (Durham, N.C.) and Erin Shields (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and systems are provided for processing PFAS-contaminated waste via thermomechanochemical (TMC) processing. In one example, a system may include a TMC processing chamber including a millin...