US Patent Issued to Well Resources on May 19 for "Adsorption material and method for treating pollutants" (Chinese, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,655, issued on May 19, was assigned to Well Resources Inc. (Calgary, Canada).

"Adsorption material and method for treating pollutants" was invented by Warren Chung (Calgary, Canada), Xuebing Li (Qingdao, China), Pei Yu (Qingdao, China), Mengtao Cui (Qingdao, China), Quan Shi (Beijing), Zhiming Xu (Beijing), Suoqi Zhao (Beijing), Chunming Xu (Beijing) and Keng H. Chung (Edmonton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of treating or remediating contaminated material, such as water or soil, comprises contacting such material with asphaltenes. The asphaltenes are preferably produced as a by-product of petroleum refining and, in p...