US Patent Issued to Battelle Memorial Institute on Sept. 30 for "Method and system for dehumidification and atmospheric water extraction with minimal energy consumption" (Washington, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,237, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Wash.).

"Method and system for dehumidification and atmospheric water extraction with minimal energy consumption" was invented by Bernard P. McGrail (Pasco, Wash.), Jeromy W. J. Jenks (Hines, Ore.) and Radha K. Motkuri (Richland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and devices for managing humidity within an HVAC system including a nanostructured desiccant porous material configured to adsorb water from an inlet stream at a first air pressure and to release water from that material when subjected to a second air pressure when the second...