ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,938, issued on May 12, was assigned to Enviromix Inc (Charleston, S.C.).

"Systems and methods for creating and segmenting treatment processes" was invented by Sarah O. Elger (Cudahy, Wis.), David D. Lauer (Germantown, Wis.) and John Edward Koch III (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for enabling dynamic volumetric transitioning and segmentation of treatment conditions are disclosed. Such treatment conditions may include, by way of example, systems and methods for dynamically transitioning treatment environments within a reactor for activated sludge treatment processes. Such environments may include ana...