US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on April 15 for "Continuously-cycled water harvesting for dry cooling tower operated power plants" (Greek, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,974, issued on April 15, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Continuously-cycled water harvesting for dry cooling tower operated power plants" was invented by Mehdi Asheghi (Oakland, Calif.), Kenneth E. Goodson (Portola Valley, Calif.), Alexandros Terzis (Salonika, Greece) and Juan G. Santiago (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first aspect of this work relates to water harvesting in power plants. A water adsorbent material is driven through adsorption-desorption cycles using waste heat from a power plant to harvest water from ambient air. In a preferred e...