ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,966, issued on June 17, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Deionization system with heat management" 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: "An electrochemical deionization system that maintains an operating temperature range of a solution stream (e.g., seawater or brackish water) flowing through the cells of the electrochemical deionization system. Maintaining the operating temperature range is targeted at prolonging the lifetime of the system and incre...