ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,776, issued on March 4, was assigned to XI'AN SHIYOU UNIVERSITY (Shaanxi, China) and CHINA NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTD (Beijing).
"Integrated boron removal and flocculation process for treating fracturing wastewater" was invented by Tao Yu (Shaanxi, China), Chengtun Qu (Shaanxi, China), Jinling Li (Shaanxi, China), Bo Yang (Shaanxi, China), Xiaofei Zhang (Shaanxi, China), Zhen Luo (Shaanxi, China) and Rongrong He (Shaanxi, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated boron removal and flocculation process for treating fracturing wastewater is disclosed. The process compris...