ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,144, issued on June 24, was assigned to Ohio University (Athens, Ohio).
"Decontamination of fluids via joule-heating" was invented by Jason Patrick Trembly (Athens, Ohio) and David Drown Ogden (Athens, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of, and apparatus and system for, decontaminating a liquid containing dissolved solids including subjecting liquid containing dissolved solids to Joule heating under conditions effective to cause said dissolved solids to precipitate out of solution."
The patent was filed on June 29, 2018, under Application No. 16/621,930.
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