ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,601, issued on July 22, was assigned to Khalifa University of Science and Technology (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).

"Integrated thermoacoustic freeze desalination systems and processes" was invented by Isam Janajreh (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Didarul Islam (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Sufian Abedrabbo (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Hongtao Zhang (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) and Ussama Ali (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provide an integrated thermoacoustic freeze desalination system (100,106) and process including a thermoacoustic engine (102), wherein the thermoa...