ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,940, issued on May 12, was assigned to GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Guangzhou City, China).

"MABR-based method for treating rare earth mine tailwater" was invented by Yuan Zhang (Guangzhou City, China), Honghao Xie (Guangzhou City, China), Xinfei Zhang (Guangzhou City, China), Jianhui Zhan (Guangzhou City, China), Yuliang Wu (Guangzhou City, China) and Zhifeng Yang (Guangzhou City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an MABR-based method for treating rare earth mine tailwater, comprising: introducing rare earth mine tailwater into a sedimentation pond and simultaneously injecting pig farm breedi...