US Patent Issued on July 21 for "Bioreactor garden wastewater treatment system" (Maryland, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,626, issued on July 21.

"Bioreactor garden wastewater treatment system" was invented by Paul E. Sturm (Sykesville, Md.) and Phalgun Mantha (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wastewater treatment system for households, individual buildings, hotels, neighborhoods, and wastewater treatment plants is designed to treat wastewater effluent from an initial treatment system such as a septic tank or a primary or secondary treatment system. A self-regenerating bioreactor garden is connected in series with the initial treatment system. The self-regenerating bioreactor garden receives untreated or minimally treated wastewa...