US Patent Issued to Cambridge Enterprise on March 24 for "Methods for obtaining liquid from a solid phase" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,924, issued on March 24, was assigned to Cambridge Enterprise Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Methods for obtaining liquid from a solid phase" was invented by Yii Leng Chua (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for obtaining a liquid from a porous solid phase is described. The method comprises forming a liquid seal at a first end of a porous solid phase to which a liquid is bound, wherein liquid of the liquid seal is immiscible with the liquid bound to the solid phase, and applying a pressure differential across the porous solid phase to cause the immiscible liquid to move through the porous solid phase...