US Patent Issued to Battelle Memorial Institute on Oct. 20 for "Microchannel distillation device fabricated using additive manufacture" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,590, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Wash.).

"Microchannel distillation device fabricated using additive manufacture" was invented by Paul H. Humble (Richland, Wash.), Dan R. Bottenus (Richland, Wash.), Timothy G. Veldman (Kennewick, Wash.), Mike D. Ripplinger (Richland, Wash.) and Warren W. Harper (Richland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Unique distillation columns provide improved gas separation. The efficiency of air separation was tested using three different small scale cryogenic distillation columns. An inventive additively-manufactured column demonstrated superior performance as...