ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,391, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to DANFOSS A/S (Nordborg, Denmark).

"System for reverse osmosis and for pressure retarded osmosis" was invented by Georg Herborg Enevoldsen (Nordborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for reverse osmosis, RO, and for pressure retarded osmosis, PRO, includes: a RO subsystem (10) with a high-pressure RO chamber (11) and a low-pressure RO chamber (12) separated by a RO membrane (13), the high-pressure RO chamber (11) having a RO feed inlet (14) and a brine outlet (15) and the low-pressure RO chamber (12) having a permeate outlet (16); a PRO subsystem (20) with a high-pressure PRO chamb...