US Patent Issued to Adept Materials on March 18 for "Multifunctional system for passive heat and water management" (Rhode Island Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,879, issued on March 18, was assigned to Adept Materials Inc. (Somerville, Mass.).

"Multifunctional system for passive heat and water management" was invented by Derek Martin Stein (Providence, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a multifunctional material system is provided and can include a variable-permeability layer, a desiccant containing layer, and a vapor-permeable supporting layer. The variable-permeability layer can have a vapor permeability that increases with increasing relative humidity. The desiccant containing layer can be adjacent the variable-permeability layer. The vapor-permeable supporting layer ...