US Patent Issued to KUWAIT UNIVERSITY on March 11 for "Solar still water treatment using carbon-based effervescent tablets and related methods" (Kuwaiti Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,973, issued on March 11, was assigned to KUWAIT UNIVERSITY (Safat, Kuwait).

"Solar still water treatment using carbon-based effervescent tablets and related methods" was invented by Naser Alsayegh (Safat, Kuwait), Nawaf F. Aljuwayhel (Safat, Kuwait) and Maryam Jamali (Safat, Kuwait).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water desalination system and process are provided in which a suspension is fed into a water desalination chamber from a source container. At least one effervescent tablet is introduced into a base fluid within the source container to form the suspension. The effervescent tablet serves to increase the heat absorption of th...