US Patent Issued to YPF TECNOLOGIA on April 7 for "Method and apparatus for wastewater treatment using ultrafine bubbles" (Argentinean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,198, issued on April 7, was assigned to YPF TECNOLOGIA S.A. (Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina).

"Method and apparatus for wastewater treatment using ultrafine bubbles" was invented by Nuria Carolina Vidal (Berisso, Argentina), Alma Sinojmeri (Berisso, Argentina), Marcos Coustet (Berisso, Argentina), Jorge Luis Fasano (La Plata, Argentina) and Jose Roberto Leunda (La Plata, Argentina).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for wastewater treatment using ultrafine bubbles, wherein bubbles of 200 nm or less are contacted with a wastewater volume in continuous flow conditions by means of an ultrafine bubble genera...