US Patent Issued to DAPHNE WATER SOLUTIONS on March 17 for "Using Daphnia for bioremediation" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,138, issued on March 17, was assigned to DAPHNE WATER SOLUTIONS Ltd. (Birmingham, Great Britain).

"Using Daphnia for bioremediation" was invented by Karl David Dearn (Birmingham, Great Britain) and Luisa Orsini (Birmingham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed a method of improving water quality, the method comprising adding a pool of isolated Daphnia to a body of water such that the pool of isolated Daphnia is exposed to one or more contaminants which may be in the water. The pool of isolated Daphnia comprise Daphnia which have been resurrected from dormant Daphnia. The pool of isolated Daphnia are allowe...