US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education on Jan. 27 for "Augmentation of mass transfer using oscillation" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,451, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh).

"Augmentation of mass transfer using oscillation" was invented by Sung Kwon Cho (Pittsburgh) and Hongyao Geng (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device hereof includes a first volume for flow of a first fluid therethrough, a second volume for flow of a second fluid therethrough, a membrane separating the first volume from the second volume, which is permeable to transfer/exchange of at least one component between the first volume and the second volume and a drive system or actuator system to induce o...