US Patent Issued to SolMem on Dec. 2 for "Spiral wound multi-effect membrane distillation module" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,386, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SolMem LLC (Houston).

"Spiral wound multi-effect membrane distillation module" was invented by John Allen Floyd (Bellaire, Texas), Ibrahim Abdallah (Houston), Ze He (Houston), Jinjian Wu (Shanghai) and Qilin Li (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distillation device and method of manufacturing a distillation device is disclosed. The distillation device includes at least one spiral wound membrane distillation (MD) unit. The spiral wound MD unit includes a perforated center tube concentric to a cylindrical housing and a plurality of effects spirally wound around the center tube. Each of the e...