US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on Aug. 19 for "Bimodal reverse osmosis and pressure retarded osmosis framework" (American, Colombian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,768, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Bimodal reverse osmosis and pressure retarded osmosis framework" was invented by Akshay Krishna Rao (Folsom, Calif.), George Maged Elias (Elmhurst, Ill.), Stephen McCoy Coan (Hinsdale, Ill.), Luke Wrede (Mount Prospect, Ill.), David Martin Warsinger (West Lafayette, Ind.), Owen R Li (San Jose, Calif.) and Sandra Patricia Cordoba Renteria (Chacarita Segunda Etapa Santande, Colombia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a dual reverse osmosis/pressure retarded osmosis plant, including when electricity costs less than a first prede...