US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LARECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE on July 14 for "Method for converting osmotic energy into hydraulic energy and for desalination" (French, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,737, issued on July 14, was assigned to UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES (Saint Martin d'Heres, France) and CENTRE NATIONAL DE LARECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris).

"Method for converting osmotic energy into hydraulic energy and for desalination" was invented by Cyril Picard (Saint Egreve, France), Elisabeth Charlaix (St Julien-en-Champsaur, France) and William Chevremont (Herve/Battice, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method p1 for converting osmotic energy into hydraulic energy and the method p2 for desalination, include pressurisation/depressurisation and isochoric washing of an aqueous solution containing a salt in the presence o...