US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON on Dec. 9 for "Freshwater harvesting assembly utilizing water-sorption material within hierarchical component" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,471, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON (Akron, Ohio).

"Freshwater harvesting assembly utilizing water-sorption material within hierarchical component" was invented by Shing-Chung Josh Wong (Akron, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A freshwater harvesting assembly includes a micro-scale component selected from a polymer, a foam, and a membrane; a water-sorption material selected from metal-organic framework (MOF), nanosilica gel, and superabsorbent polymer; wherein the water-sorption material is incorporated within the micro-scale component to thereby provide a water-sorption-material-containing micro-scale co...