US Patent Issued to University of Washington on Nov. 3 for "Spent coffee ground biochar, related methods of making, environmental remediation systems, and methods of removing contaminants from solution" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,687, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to University of Washington (Seattle).

"Spent coffee ground biochar, related methods of making, environmental remediation systems, and methods of removing contaminants from solution" was invented by Jessica Ray (Seattle) and Jessica Steigerwald (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing biochar from spent coffee grounds, biochar, such as biochar produced according to the methods of the present disclosure, an environmental remediation system including biochar according to embodiments of the present disclosure, and methods of removing contaminants from an aqueous solution using bioc...