US Patent Issued to Northeastern University, Soleeva Energy on Dec. 23 for "Solar-driven evaporation device for desalination system" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,622, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Northeastern University (Boston) and Soleeva Energy Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Solar-driven evaporation device for desalination system" was invented by Yi Zheng (Canton, Mass.), Ralph Ahlgren (San Jose, Calif.), Xiaojie Liu (Boston), Yanpei Tian (Boston), Mohamed Sonbaty (San Jose, Calif.) and Khushnood Ahmad Qazi (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A floatable interfacial solar-driven evaporation structure includes a water impervious thermal insulation layer adapted to float on a body of water, a porous absorber layer on the water impervious thermal insulation layer, and an interl...