ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,165, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Separating ions in water using plastic ice VII" was invented by Fausto Martelli (Stockton Heath, Great Britain) and Malgorzata Jadwiga Zimon (Warrington, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure include a method for separating selected ions in water, a purified water sample, and a controller for a high pressure press. One embodiment of the method may comprise transforming a sample of water into a plastic ice VII block and physically separating a bottom portion of the plastic ice VII block from a top portion o...