US Patent Issued to THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION on June 9 for "System and method for continuous metabolism of 1,4-dioxane" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,676, issued on June 9, was assigned to THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC. (Tallahassee, Fla.).

"System and method for continuous metabolism of 1,4-dioxane" was invented by Youneng Tang (Tallahasse, Fla.), Sarajeen Saima Hoque (Tallahassee, Fla.) and Yi Xiong (Tallahassee, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Bioreactors and associated methods are provided herein including bioreactors capable of treating water contaminated with 1,4-dioxane. In certain embodiments, a bioreactor is disclosed and may include an adsorbent layer with a biofilm capable of metabolizing 1,4-dioxane and a screen disposed downstream of the adso...