Patents by Inventor Joseph F. Colaruotolo

Joseph F. Colaruotolo has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Treatment of obnoxious chemical wastes
    Patent number: 4511657
    Abstract: This invention relates to the treatment of obnoxious waste effluents, both industrial and municipal, such as chemical waste landfill leachates, chemical process wastewaters and other obnoxious waste effluents by the use of microbial cultures, especially adapted to biodegrade the obnoxious chemicals in the chemical wastes, such as activated sludge and inoculants for activated sludge, and the new inoculated activated sludges and their use in biological wastewater systems such as continuous and batch reactors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1985
    Assignee: Occidental Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph F. Colaruotolo, Robert L. Irvine, Lloyd H. Ketchum, Jr., Wei-chi Ying
  • Microbial degradation of obnoxious organic wastes into innocuous materials
    Patent number: 4493895
    Abstract: This invention relates to microbial methods and materials useful in the degradation of organic chemicals having toxic and obnoxious characteristics into innocuous materials compatible with the environment and to the process comprising identification, production and utilization of microorganisms for said purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 15, 1985
    Assignee: Occidental Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph F. Colaruotolo, Ronald H. Olsen, Peter A. Vandenbergh
  • Microbial degradation of obnoxious organic wastes into innocucous materials
    Patent number: 4477570
    Abstract: This invention relates to microbial methods and materials useful in the degradation of organic chemicals having toxic and obnoxious characteristics into innocuous materials compatible with the environment and to the process comprising identification, production and utilization of microorganisms for said purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 16, 1984
    Assignee: Occidental Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph F. Colaruotolo, Ronald H. Olsen, Peter A. Vandenbergh