ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,138, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Skagen Energy Services Inc. (Red Deer, Canada).

"Wastewater processing system and apparatus" was invented by Kent Jensen (Red Deer, Canada), Grant Jensen (Red Deer, Canada) and Jesse Madro (Red Deer, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water treatment system is provided for removing contaminants from feed water. The system receives feed water at a stripper tower, which removes VOCs from the feed water and directs the VOCs to a heating stage to be eliminated. Hot gases are directed from the heating stage to an evaporation stage. The VOC-free water from the stripper tower is also directed to ...