US Patent Issued to Utah State University on Dec. 9 for "Storing cold energy and freeze desalination of salt water" (Utah Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,868, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Utah State University (Logan, Utah).

"Storing cold energy and freeze desalination of salt water" was invented by Hailei Wang (Logan, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For storing supercooled water, a method cools a water flow with a specified mass flow rate to a specified temperature to form a supercooled water flow. The method conducts the supercooled water flow through a flow pipe with a specified pipe impedance to an ice tank. The method stores the supercooled water flow as ice in the ice tank."

The patent was filed on March 23, 2023, under Application No. 18/188,996.

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