ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,220, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies Support (Saint-Maurice, France).

"Method for treating water by adsorption on activated carbon coupled with an addition of ozone, and facility for implementing said method" was invented by Philippe Sauvignet (Maen Roch, France) and Christophe Sabourdy (Rennes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a water treatment method comprising a step of injecting ozone by a Venturi effect into the water to be treated, immediately followed by a step of ozone saturation of the water to be treated, a step of bringing the ozonated water to be treated...