ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,171, issued on June 23.
"Dual-function water-vapor capture device" was invented by Thomas Cline (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus that dehumidifies an enclosed airspace by compressing air into a first reactor, where the water-vapor component of the air accelerates liquefaction of calcium-chloride granules, and by also compressing air into a second reactor where a saturated solution of calcium chloride from the first reactor absorbs water vapor from the air through a sparging process, which enables a continuous absorption of water vapor by an increasingly diluted solution to a point of diminished marginal utility."...