Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc. Announces Approval Of New U.S. Patent

Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc. announced that it has been notified that its U.S. Patent application 12/713,011 entitled Method for Treating Nitrogen in Waste Streams has been approved. The patent application was made on February 25, 2010; upon publication and issuance, the patent will be officially granted and will remain in force until 2029. Bion's recently granted patents have enhanced and expanded protections for the application of Bion's core biological nutrient removal system. The various active microbes present in biological nutrient removal systems, as is the case for Bion's technologies, are the workhorses of these processes. This patent expands both the types of biological communities, and the process configurations that promote their growth and use for nitrogen removal. The microbial community described by this patent opens up the potential for new approaches and reactor configurations for simultaneous nitrification and denitrification removal of nitrogen from wastestreams.