ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,888, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Moleaer Inc. (Hawthorne, Calif.).

"Nanobubbles for anaerobic processes" was invented by John William Crisman (Eudora, Kan.) and Andrea Renee Turriciano White (Sparks, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods and systems for treating a stream comprising material (e.g., biomass such as plant biomass, animal biomass, agricultural biomass, wastewater sludge, or a combination thereof) with nanobubbles. One such method includes generating nanobubbles in wastewater sludge of a wastewater treatment system to produce nanobubble-containing sludge, the wastewater sludge having a hig...