ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,744, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to THE INSTITUTE OF SEAWATER DESALINATION AND MULTIPURPOSE UTILIZATION, MNR(TIANJIN) (Tianjin, China).

"Spiral-flow type fluidized-bed cooling crystallization system" was invented by Chungang Xie (Tianjin, China), Shaoyan Lu (Tianjin, China), Wenyan Zhang (Tianjin, China), Licong Wang (Tianjin, China), Laibo Ma (Tianjin, China) and Liang Wang (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure discloses a spiral-flow type fluidized-bed cooling crystallization system. The system comprises a first fluidized-bed crystallizer, a second fluidized-bed crystallizer, a crystal growing tank, a ce...