US Patent Issued to XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY on Feb. 10 for "System and method for solar-driven photothermal seawater desalination and ion electroosmosis power generation" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,604, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY (Shaanxi, China).

"System and method for solar-driven photothermal seawater desalination and ion electroosmosis power generation" was invented by Zhiguo Qu (Shaanxi, China), Qian Liu (Shaanxi, China), Jianfei Zhang (Shaanxi, China) and Qinlong Ren (Shaanxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a system and a method for solar-driven photothermal seawater desalination and ion electroosmosis power generation. In the system, a first reservoir is provided with a first electrode immersed in seawater; a second reservoir is connected to the fir...