ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,847, issued on April 14, was assigned to Baryon Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Liquid separation system" was invented by Demis Lukasz Pandelidis (Wroclaw, Poland) and Jeffrey Premer (Wilmington, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A separation system separates a first liquid from a compound liquid. Examples of the compound liquid are seawater, brine, rainwater, wastewater, biofuel precursors, lactic acid, or fruit juice. A plate heat exchanger includes at least one evaporation channel and at least one condensation channel. The compound liquid flows through the evaporation channel where the first liquid evaporates from the compound liquid...