US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on Sept. 16 for "Thermoelectric distillation apparatus" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,163, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Thermoelectric distillation apparatus" 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 the feed liquid chamber....