ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,578, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to BLUEGREEN WATER TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Tel Aviv, Israel).
"Compositions for controlling phytoplankton contamination" was invented by Moshe Harel (Mevo Betar, Israel) and Oleg Yu. Berezin (Maale Adumim, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition for mitigating, inhibiting, ameliorating and/or eliminating phytoplankton growth in a waterbody, the composition comprising an active ingredient at concentration of 80.0-99.5% (w/w) of the composition and a coating material at concentration of 0.5-20% (w/w) of the composition; wherein the critical surface tension of the composition is between 15-60 dy...