US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA on Feb. 17 for "Devices and methods for treatment of wastewater" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,693, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA (Columbia, S.C.).

"Devices and methods for treatment of wastewater" was invented by Paul Vecchiarelli (Lexington, S.C.) and Jamie R. Lead (Columbia, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a flow-through application and system that utilizes a nanoparticle technology, which is modular and scalable, that can be utilized to recover a contaminant from water using an attendant pump and in-line sensors along with magnets and ultrasonic energy to separate magnetic nanoparticles from an aqueous mixture and to further separate recovered contaminant from conta...