US Patent Issued to UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY on Aug. 5 for "Autonomous ultraviolet light and brush apparatus for remediation and prevention of biological and chemical fouling in wells" (Massachusetts, Vermont, Mississippi Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,846, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY (Alexandria, Va.).

"Autonomous ultraviolet light and brush apparatus for remediation and prevention of biological and chemical fouling in wells" was invented by Taylor E Rycroft (Concord, Mass.), Zachariah E Tomberg (Barre, Vt.) and Griffin Donohue (Vicksburg, Miss.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a system for cleaning a well includes (i) an ultraviolet (UV) light emitting device and/or (ii) a first brush connected with an abrasion device motor to drive the first brush in rotation around a longitudinal axis of ...