ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,177, issued on July 28, was assigned to Searen LLC (Cincinnati).

"Vacuum air lift systems including a fluidic oscillator" was invented by Thomas Wood Andrews (Cincinnati), Emmanuel Pierre Pascal Briquet (Cincinnati) and John Rodgers Brooks Jr. (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vacuum airlift system for treating an aqueous effluent includes an upflow liquid portion, where the upflow liquid portion is configured to retain a fluid, and a fluid inlet, the fluid inlet being fluidly coupled with the upflow liquid portion, where the fluid inlet is positioned at about a bottom of the upflow liquid portion. The vacuum airlift syste...