ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,050, issued on Aug. 26.

"Vacuum evaporative heat exchanger" was invented by John Troy Kraczek (Farmington, Utah) and John Arthur Kraczek (Farmington, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for using a high-pressure reactor to separate clean water from dirty water without filtration and to extract and concentrate contaminants from dirty water for use as a fuel. In particular, techniques and systems are described for separating water from hydrocarbon contaminates, other BTU-laden compounds, and dissolved minerals, while also boiling water and condensing the resulting steam into distilled water. In addition,...