ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,627, issued on May 19.
"High-throughput thermoacoustic device for separation of fluid dynamical mixtures" was invented by Evan Austen Coleman (Boston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the thermoacoustic separation of sparse or dilute particulates, liquids, or gases from any substance whose motion is appropriately described by hydrodynamics. It is applicable in a broad range of scientific and industrial contexts because it is designed to partially reverse the process of mixing, albeit at a significant energy cost. Relative to similar devices, it is novel because it has been configured to process material i...