ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,604, issued on July 22, was assigned to University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Synergistic green sorption media for cyanobacterial toxin remediation" was invented by Ni-Bin Chang (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein relates to a low-cost, synergistic, and/or green sorption media and methods thereof capable of removing MC-LR in-situ over different landscapes. The synergistic composition may include a mixture of a plurality of sand particles, a plurality of biochar particles, a plurality of clay particles, a plurality of zero-valent iron (hereinafter "ZVI") iron molecules, and...