ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,695, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to LIXIL Corp. (Tokyo).
"Water and energy recovery system" was invented by Tate Rogers (Durham, N.C.) and Aaron Forbis-Stokes (Durham, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for wastewater treatment are described. In some embodiments, a wastewater treatment system may include a container configured to receive and store at least a portion of incoming wastewater during a digestion process that generates biogas and a biogas burner. The biogas burner may be arranged to receive and burn at least a portion of the biogas generated by the digestion process. The system may be configured to...