US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on June 23 for "Plasma-enabled liquid filtration and decontamination" (Virginia, Connecticut, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,400, issued on June 23, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Plasma-enabled liquid filtration and decontamination" was invented by Scott G. Walton (Fairfax, Va.), William A. Maza (Silver Spring, Md.), Michael J. Johnson (Annapolis, Md.), David R. Boris (Annandale, Va.), Vanessa M. Breslin (Branford, Conn.), Grant C. Daniels (Burke, Va.) and Robert B. Balow (Mount Ranier, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and method for decontaminating both contaminated waters and sorbent filter media, either separately or simultaneously, in a single s...