US Patent Issued to Comstock IP Holdings on June 10 for "Electric field assisted Ranque-Hilsch (EFARH) vortex tube for enhanced product separation and transformation" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,006, issued on June 10, was assigned to Comstock IP Holdings LLC (Milton, Ga.).

"Electric field assisted Ranque-Hilsch (EFARH) vortex tube for enhanced product separation and transformation" was invented by Craig A. Grimes (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved apparatus for the separation of gas or gas-vapor, as well as simultaneous product transformation or conversion of one or more of the separated gas or gas-vapor species, includes modification of a Ranque-Hilsch vortex tube to include an electric field internal to the vortex tube, created either by an applied potential or induced by temperature-dependent tribo...