US Patent Issued to Water Harvesting on Aug. 4 for "Heat pump-based water harvesting systems, and methods of using thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,576, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Water Harvesting Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).

"Heat pump-based water harvesting systems, and methods of using thereof" was invented by David S. Kuo (Fremont, Calif.) and Ievgen Kapustin (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are water harvesting systems, as well as methods of making and using such systems, for capturing water from surrounding air using a design that reduces overall energy costs of the systems and improve water harvesting cycle efficiency. The systems and methods use sorbent materials, such as metal-organic frameworks, to adsorb water from the air. The systems ...