US Patent Issued to AQUACYCL on Sept. 29 for "Scalable continuous flow microbial fuel cells" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,173, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to AQUACYCL INC. (Escondido, Calif.).

"Scalable continuous flow microbial fuel cells" was invented by Orianna Bretschger (San Diego), Sofia Malinova Babanova (San Diego), Carlo Abraham Angulo Rodriguez (Lakeside, Calif.), Jaime Octavio Garcia Cornejo (La Mesa, Calif.), Pedro Izarael Huerta Virgen (San Ysidro, Calif.) and Ryoji Naito (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are modular microbial fuel cell (MFC) devices, systems and methods for treating wastewater and generating electrical energy through a bioelectrochemical waste-to-energy conversion process. In some aspects, a modular...