US Patent Issued to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND on Feb. 4 for "Thermal management system with sublimator and adsorbent bed" (Connecticut, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,909, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Thermal management system with sublimator and adsorbent bed" was invented by John W. Steele (New Hartford, Conn.), Peter A. Canga (League City, Texas), Barbara M. Peyton (Windsor, Conn.), Tony Rector (East Granby, Conn.) and Douglas Zupan (La Porte, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a filter device that has, in serial flow order, an adsorbent bed, a biocide filter, and a particle filter. The adsorbent bed includes adsorbent media that is configured to remove organic compounds from feed water that are capable of forming an adherent...