ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,772, issued on May 19, was assigned to APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATES INC. (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Hydrothermal purification process" was invented by Edward N. Coppola (Southport, Fla.), Sanjay Nana (Panama City, Fla.), Charles Red Jr. (Youngstown, Fla.) and Jocelyn Marie Goodwin (Panama City, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process and system for reducing contaminants contained in a contaminated feedstock comprising mixing the contaminated feedstock with water and at least one of metal scavengers or reactants, to form a feedstock-water-reactant mixture, feeding the mixture under pressure into a hydrothermal purification reactor, whe...