US Patent Issued to SUNVAPOR on March 3 for "Hybrid process and system for recovering water" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,436, issued on March 3, was assigned to SUNVAPOR INC. (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Hybrid process and system for recovering water" was invented by Brandon Hathaway (Pasadena, Calif.) and Philip Gleckman (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid process and system for separating water from an inlet brine solution is disclosed. The hybrid process couples at least two different separation processes/systems. The inlet brine solution is fed into a first separation process, which produces a water distillate and a brine concentrate. The brine concentrate from the first separation process is then fed into the second separation proces...