Patents
US 12492868 B2: Storing cold energy and freeze desalination of salt water
- Granted
- 2025-12-09
- Filed
- 2023-03-23 application 18188996
- Type
- Utility · 12 claims
- Elsewhere
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Abstract
For storing supercooled water, a method cools a water flow with a specified mass flow rate to a specified temperature to form a supercooled water flow. The method conducts the supercooled water flow through a flow pipe with a specified pipe impedance to an ice tank. The method stores the supercooled water flow as ice in the ice tank.
Source: PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 (ipg251209.xml).
Assignees
| Assignee | Type | Place | Also on furp.org | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Utah State University 160 patents | US company or organization | Logan, UT | Utah State University College or university EXACT high confidence: identical full name and state UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY Nonprofit EXACT high confidence: identical full name and state | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
Inventors
| Inventor | Place | Patents | Person page | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hailei Wang | Logan, UT | 6 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
CPC categories
| Subclass | Category | First group | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| F28D | Heat-exchange apparatus, not provided for in another subclass, in which the heat-exchange media do not come into direct contact | F28D20/02 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
| C02F | Treatment of water, waste water, sewage, or sludge | C02F1/22 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
| F01P | Cooling of machines or engines in general; cooling of internal-combustion engines | F01P3/12 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
| Y02A | Technologies for adaptation to climate change | Y02A20/124 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
Cooperative Patent Classification, as currently assigned (one row per subclass).
Assignments and security interests
| Recorded | What | From | To | Reel/frame | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-08-20 | Assignment Assignment of assignor's interest | WANG, HAILEI signed 2022-03-30 | UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY LOGAN, UT | 68341/80 | ECORSEXC, file of 2026-09-25 |
Documents recorded with the USPTO Assignment Recordation Branch that list this patent. A security interest is a lender’s claim on the patent as collateral; a release ends it.
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