ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,183, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to WUHAN UNIVERSITY (Wuhan, China).

"Carbon fiber filter and regeneration method therefor, and water treatment device" was invented by Xu Wang (Wuhan, China), Mingliang Wang (Wuhan, China), Hui Wang (Wuhan, China), Tao Xu (Wuhan, China), Yimin Xie (Wuhan, China), Xuhui Mao (Wuhan, China), Jiangjun Hu (Wuhan, China), Yi Li (Wuhan, China), Yu Huang (Wuhan, China) and Yuanrou Fan (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A carbon fiber filter includes a center filter body and carbon fiber yarn wound around the center filter body. The center filter body is hollow and includes a water outlet. A surfac...