US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on May 20 for "Thermoelectric water gap membrane distillation system and process" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,835, issued on May 20, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Thermoelectric water gap membrane distillation system and process" was invented by Dahiru Umar Lawal (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Atia Esmaeil Atia Khalifa (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Turki Nabieh Baroud (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Farouq Muhammad Aliyu (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distillation apparatus having a hot liquid block, a thermoelectric module (TEM), a condensation surface, a feed liquid chamber having a feed chamber inlet, a feed chamber outlet, and a membrane disposed on at least one side of...