ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,399, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Novelgen Co. Ltd. (Nagahama, Japan).

"Water treatment method, water treatment system, carbonized combustion material, and method for producing carbonized combustion material" was invented by Atsushi Ogura (Nagahama, Japan), Yoshihiro Kawada (Nagahama, Japan), Yui Sawada (Nagahama, Japan) and Hiromasa Tabata (Nagahama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a technique capable of efficiently removing nitrogen contained in water to be treated and efficiently recovering microplastics from the water to be treated. An aspect of the present invention is a water treatment system 10 including...