US Patent Issued on Jan. 20 for "Distributed wastewater collection, treatment and reuse system with integrated, intelligent wildfire defense" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,981, issued on Jan. 20.

"Distributed wastewater collection, treatment and reuse system with integrated, intelligent wildfire defense" was invented by Dana K. Ripley (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intelligent sewage system designed for use in municipalities around the Wildland Urban Interface incorporates a decentralized network of wastewater treatment units to process wastewater from a plurality of parcels. The decentralized wastewater treatment units spread a Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) reduction of the wastewater throughout the system and effluent is delivered efficiently through a pressure sewage system. ...