ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,380, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Electrochemical water deionization separators" was invented by Jake Christensen (Elk Grove, Calif.), Munir M. Besli (San Jose, Calif.), Saravanan Kuppan (San Jose, Calif.) and Sondra Hellstrom (East Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A separator for an electrochemical deionization cell for removing ions from a solution stream. The separator includes an anion exchange membrane layer formed from an anion exchange membrane material. The anion exchange membrane layer has a first surface and an opposing second surface. The separator further incl...