US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM on Feb. 24 for "Desalination system and method" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,393, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM (Birmingham, Great Britain).

"Desalination system and method" was invented by Philip Davies (Birmingham, Great Britain), Timothy Naughton (Coventry, Great Britain), Liam Burlace (Birmingham, Great Britain) and Kiho Park (Birmingham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A desalination system and a method for operating the desalination system. An example desalination system includes a partitioned container, a membrane container housing a cross-flow semipermeable membrane, a feed pump for supplying saline water, a recirculation pump, a main valve, a bypass valv...