ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,058, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Wenhou University (Wenzhou, China).

"Sludge treatment system using a horizontal drain board with a multi-layer geotextile bag" was invented by Jun Wang (Wenzhou, China), Hongtao Fu (Wenzhou, China), Yuanqiang Cai (Wenzhou, China), Shihu Gao (Wenzhou, China), Guohui Yuan (Wenzhou, China), Peng Wang (Wenzhou, China), Chuan Gu (Wenzhou, China), Lin Guo (Wenzhou, China), Junfeng Ni (Wenzhou, China), Xiuqing Hu (Wenzhou, China), Ziyang Gao (Wenzhou, China), Rila Anda (Wenzhou, China) and Xiaoxiao Zhu (Wenzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the invention, a sludge treatment technology adopt...