ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,886, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Energy services through integrated flexible operation of wastewater systems" was invented by Jose Bolorinos (Stanford, Calif.), Meagan Mauter (Stanford, Calif.) and Ram Rajagopal (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a system, and a computer program product for managing energy at a wastewater treatment facility. One or more measurements received from one or more sensors of at least one wastewater treatment facility communicatively coupled to at least one processor are processed The process...