US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on April 14 for "Water treatment apparatus and method for treatment of water" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,648, issued on April 14, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Water treatment apparatus and method for treatment of water" was invented by Angelos Garyfallos (Niederrohrdorf, Switzerland), Frank Kassubek (Rheinfelden, Germany), Jan Carstensen (Waldshut-Tiengen, Germany), Andreas Wetzel (Brugg, Switzerland) and Emmanouil Panousis (Baden, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ballast water treatment apparatus including a ballast water transport line configured to transport a ballast water main stream, a plasma generation device configured to generate an activated gas from a feed gas; and a mixing device. The pl...