ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,373, issued on May 26, was assigned to Zhejiang University (Hangzhou City, China).

"Method for promoting degradation of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) by pseudomonas JD37 with nanoscale zero-valent iron (nZVI) and use thereof" was invented by Daohui Lin (Hangzhou City, China), Ting Wu (Hangzhou City, China), Tianying Zheng (Hangzhou City, China) and Yunbu Dai (Hangzhou City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method for promoting degradation of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) by Pseudomonas JD37 with nanoscale zero-valent iron (nZVI) and use thereof. The method includes the following steps: addin...