ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,893, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Shanghai Municipal Engineering Design Institute (Group) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai) and Tongji University (Shanghai).

"Catalytic oxidation reactor and complete set of equipment" was invented by Xin Zhang (Shanghai), Lei Dong (Shanghai), He Cui (Shanghai), Yinguang Chen (Shanghai), Zheyu Gu (Shanghai), Keyang Wang (Changzhou, China) and Yuwei She (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catalytic oxidation reactor and a complete set of equipment are provided for water purification, the catalytic oxidation reactor includes a container, a reagent storage and delivery assembly and an ultraviolet lamp t...