ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,371, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to TONGJI UNIVERSITY (Shanghai).

"Method for strengthening biological manganese oxidation using magnetic field and use thereof" was invented by Mei Wang (Shanghai), Zuxin Xu (Shanghai), Bin Dong (Shanghai), Mengke Cui (Shanghai), Sisi Chen (Shanghai), Yifan Zeng (Shanghai) and Chun Lu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a method for strengthening a biological manganese oxidation using a magnetic field and use thereof. The method includes steps of inoculating a manganese-oxidizing microorganism into a culture medium containing Mn2+, performing magnetization tre...