ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,161, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Zhongcheng Institute (Beijing) Environmental Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Kitchen waste wastewater treatment equipment" was invented by Xiaoqing Hu (Beijing), Tao Liu (Beijing), Fengming Yue (Beijing), Xingyu Zhang (Beijing), Rufei Liu (Beijing), Chao Ji (Beijing), Feng Zhang (Beijing), Liyu Liu (Beijing), Zhongtao Sun (Beijing) and Miao Guo (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A kitchen waste wastewater treatment equipment includes a reaction kettle, a discharging mechanism and a pressurizing mechanism. In the process of high-temperature and high-pressure thermal hydrolysis of wastewater...