ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,072, issued on June 2, was assigned to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO (Denver).

"Systems and methods for acoustically-enhanced membrane separation" was invented by Xiaoyun Ding (Superior, Colo.), Kieran Roy Fung (Denver) and Yifu Ding (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for acoustically-enhanced membrane separation are described. The system may generally include a separation membrane and an acoustically-responsive structure positioned proximate the upstream side of the separation membrane. The system may further include a transducer for generating an acoustic field, wherein the acoustic field ...