US Patent Issued to KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF JEDDAH on Dec. 30 for "Thermocouple-based distillation module and method" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,548, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and UNIVERSITY OF JEDDAH (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia).

"Thermocouple-based distillation module and method" was invented by Khaled bin Bandar Al Saud (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Ahmad Alsaadi (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) and Noreddine Ghaffour (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A membrane distillation (MD) module includes a first MD sub-module including a first thermocouple; a second MD sub-module including a second thermocouple; and a distillation membrane sandwiched between the first MD sub-module and the second MD sub...