US Patent Issued to California Institute of Technology on Feb. 10 for ""Super-bubble" electro-photo hybrid catalytic system for advanced treatment of organic wastewater" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,605, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

""Super-bubble" electro-photo hybrid catalytic system for advanced treatment of organic wastewater" was invented by Lifeng Yin (Pasadena, Calif.), Alan Yalun Gu (Pasadena, Calif.) and Michael R Hoffmann (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The systems and methods for wastewater treatment comprise a porous substrate with photocatalytic material(s), and optionally electrocatalytic material(s), for generation of hydroxyl radicals that decompose contaminants in wastewater. The systems and methods intentionally facilitate the photoca...