ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,817, issued on June 30.
"Nanobubble generation device" was invented by Jonathan James Van Volkinburg (Clovis, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nanobubble generation device configured to receive an incoming fluid stream having an entrained gas and to discharge an outgoing fluid stream having entrained nanobubbles. The device has a housing enclosing an internal assembly with a leading plate assembly and a trailing plate assembly. Each plate assembly has at least one gasket and a plurality of perforated plates that optimize flow regimes to enhance the formation, mixing, and shearing of bubbles into nanobubbles in order to produce...