ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,547, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"System for desalinating water with multiple desalination processes" was invented by Atia Esmaeil Atia Khalifa (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Mohamed Abdallah Fahmy Kotb (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for water desalination includes a membrane module and an ejector module. The membrane module includes a feed tank for salt water, a heater, a humidifier receiving heated salt water and a carrier gas to form a wet gas, and a membrane distillation unit. The membrane distillation unit includes a feed ...