ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,215, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Hanwha Solutions Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Evaporator and separation method using the same" was invented by Junhee Han (Daejeon, South Korea), Shinbeom Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Gyeongseon Jeong (Daejeon, South Korea) and Keedo Han (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An evaporator according to an exemplary embodiment includes: a column in which a plurality of packings are stacked; an upper inlet, a middle inlet, and a lower inlet provided in an upper portion, a middle portion, and a lower portion of the column, respectively; an upper outlet and a lower outlet provided in the...