ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,610, issued on June 23, was assigned to Durr Systems AG (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

"Method and device for treating process air" was invented by Houver Chabo (Heilbronn, Germany) and Jens Altmann (Freiberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for treating process air from an industrial process involving a main flow, wherein at least a proportion of the process air is treated using the following method steps: a first condensation step, in which a first condensate is separated out of the process air and is fed to a first recovery process; and a second condensation step, which takes place after ...