ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,658, issued on July 1, was assigned to HEAT IP HOLDCO LLC (Aberdeen, Great Britain).

"Dirty water distillation and salt harvesting system, method, and apparatus" was invented by James Charles Juranitch (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), Alan Craig Reynolds (Novi, Mich.), Raymond Clifford Skinner (Coral Springs, Fla.) and Thomas Raymond Juranitch (Delray Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure can include a system for harvesting salt and generating distilled water from at least one of a produced water and salt water, comprising. A direct steam generator (DSG) can be configured to generate saturated steam ...