US Patent Issued to OceanWell on Feb. 10 for "Submerged water desalination system with product water pump cavitation protection" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,717, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to OceanWell Co. (Culver City, Calif.).

"Submerged water desalination system with product water pump cavitation protection" was invented by Robert A. Bergstrom (Culver City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A submersible water desalination apparatus includes a plurality of water separation membrane elements, a product water collector that receives product water from the membrane elements, and a variable output motorized submersible pump having a suction side that receives product water from the product water collector and a discharge side that pumps product water away from the apparatus throu...