ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,924, issued on May 12, was assigned to PERA COMPLEXITY B.V. (Amsterdam), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) and Universitat Zurich (Zurich).

"Desalination and/or purification device, desalination and/or purification carbon membrane, and method of desalinating and/or purifying a liquid" was invented by Aluizio M. Cruz (Long Beach, Calif.), Andrea Fratalocchi (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Marcella Bonifazi (Zurich), Valerio Mazzone (Zurich) and Christof Aegerter (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a desalination and/or purification device, a desalination and/or purific...