US Patent Issued to Marquette University on Sept. 1 for "Process for controlled adsorption and desorption of phosphate from liquids using phosphate-selective proteins" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,987, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Marquette University (Milwaukee).

"Process for controlled adsorption and desorption of phosphate from liquids using phosphate-selective proteins" was invented by Brooke Mayer (Milwaukee) and Kaushik Venkiteshwaran (Milwaukee).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides systems and methods for concentrating and recovering phosphate from samples. The method comprises using immobilized PBP for binding phosphate and a desorption solution having a pH of 11 or greater to recover phosphate from a sample when the phosphate is found at very low detection levels. Further systems and meth...