US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Aug. 11 for "Apparatus and methods for nitrogen reduction in wastewater" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,650, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Apparatus and methods for nitrogen reduction in wastewater" was invented by William A. Tarpeh (Union City, Calif.), Matthew Junjie Liu (Stanford, Calif.) and Brandon D. Clark (Attleboro, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for extracting nitrogen including compounds from wastewater is disclosed herein. The methods and apparatus use molecularly designed selective electrocatalysts, electrolytes, and separation reactors to enable automated, distributed ammonia manufacturing with minimal env...