ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,804, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Khalifa University of Science and Technology (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).

"Water sorbing materials and related systems and methods" was invented by Saeed Alhassan (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Safiya Khalil (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Alya Alkaabi (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Hamda Alblooshi (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Hajar Aljaberi (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) and Hemant Mittal (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include a water collection device (100) comprising one or more water sorbing materials including at least ...