ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,648, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to CHINESE RESEARCH ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES (Beijing).

"Process for producing heavy-metal-mediated biochar complex cured by using silicate" was invented by Lei Wang (Beijing), Beidou Xi (Beijing), Xiaoshu Wang (Beijing), Nan Xu (Beijing), Yan Shao (Beijing), Shaofeng Li (Beijing), Yangyang Wang (Beijing), Jinsheng Wang (Beijing), Ming Chang (Beijing), Gen Zhang (Beijing), Lulu Pan (Beijing), Honghu Zeng (Beijing) and Bo Yang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for producing a heavy metal mediated biochar composite using silicate solidification. Hydrocharis dubia has excellent...