US Patent Issued to William Marsh Rice University on Aug. 11 for "Ultrafast flash joule heating synthesis methods and systems for performing same" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,018, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to William Marsh Rice University (Houston).

"Ultrafast flash joule heating synthesis methods and systems for performing same" was invented by James M. Tour (Houston) and Bing Deng (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and system for soil remediation by flash Joule heating. A contaminated soil that includes organic pollutants and/or one or more metal pollutants can be mixed with carbon black or other conductive additive to form a mixture. The mixture then undergoes flash Joule heating to clean the soil (by the decomposing of the organic pollutants and/or removing of the one or more toxic m...