ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,672, issued on July 1, was assigned to Water Harvesting Inc. (Lakeview, Calif.).

"Atmospheric water harvesting system" was invented by Ievgen Kapustin (Newark, Calif.) and David S. Kuo (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generally, an atmospheric water harvester useful in harvesting water from surrounding air. Specifically, a water harvester configured to reduce the sensible heat penalty associated with heating of a volume of air in the desorption mode and cooling of the volume of air in the condensation mode of the atmospheric water harvesting system, and methods of making the water harvester and methods of using the water...