ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,685, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Vigie Groupe (Paris).

"Device for injecting fluid into a liquid, method for cleaning said device, and effluent treatment installation" was invented by Laurent De Franceschi (Cernay, France), Luca Ramoino (Uster, Switzerland), Walter Uttinger (Winterthur, Switzerland) and Gilles Carrand (Sartrouville, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for injecting a secondary fluid into a main liquid, includes a first part able to convey a secondary fluid in a substantially longitudinal direction; a second part able to eject the secondary fluid from the device, so as to inject the secondary fluid i...