US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on July 14 for "Porous medium with adjustable fluid permeability and associated systems and methods" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,743, issued on July 14, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Porous medium with adjustable fluid permeability and associated systems and methods" was invented by Yayuan Liu (Cambridge, Mass.) and Trevor Alan Hatton (Sudbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is related to porous media with adjustable fluid permeabilities and related systems and methods. In certain cases, the fluid permeability of a porous medium can be adjusted by applying an electrical potential to the porous medium. In some such cases, the application of the electrical potential to the porous medium re...