ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,848, issued on July 15, was assigned to IHI Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vapor supply device and drying system" was invented by Toru Ishii (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vapor supply device includes a sunlight-condensing heat collection unit which condenses sunlight and collects heat to obtain thermal energy, a heat-storage and heat-exchange unit which heats a heat-storage agent stored therein using the thermal energy obtained in the sunlight-condensing heat collection unit and stores thermal energy in the heat-storage agent, and heats a supply medium using the thermal energy stored in the heat-storage agent, and a vapor supply unit whic...