ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,402, issued on June 23, was assigned to U.S. PEROXIDE LLC (Atlanta).

"Creation of an iron product for wastewater treatment" was invented by Ali Safarzadeh-Amiri (Ontario, Canada), Zachary Bryan Scott (San Diego), John Ray Walton (Colfax, Calif.) and Vladimir Djukanovic (Glen Allen, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment provides a method for making a non-hazardous iron product for treating wastewater, including: adding sodium bisulfite to a solution comprising iron, creating an aqueous solution; adding an amount of sodium hydroxide to the aqueous solution to increase the pH of the aqueous solution to between 2-2.5; determin...