US Patent Issued to Applied Research Associates on April 21 for "Purification of contaminated feedstocks via hydrolysis and acidulation" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,772, issued on April 21, was assigned to Applied Research Associates Inc. (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Purification of contaminated feedstocks via hydrolysis and acidulation" was invented by Sanjay Nana (Panama City, Fla.), Jocelyn Marie Goodwin (Panama City, Fla.), Edward N. Coppola (Panama City, Fla.) and Charles Red Jr. (Youngstown, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices for decontaminating a contaminated feedstock. Water is mixed with the contaminated feedstock and fed to a reactor to hydrolyze contaminants from the contaminated feedstock. After hydrolyzing contaminants, acid is then added to the mixture of w...