Official technical record

The patent lineage

Nine collected publications trace the documentary path from a 1982 distillation apparatus through later water-treatment applications.

What a patent can show

A patent documents disclosures and legal claims. Issuance does not prove commercial performance, medical benefit, safety, or independent replication.

Collected publications

US4339307
1982

Distillation Apparatus

Issued July 13, 1982. The earliest issued U.S. patent in the collected Ellis lineage.

US4420374
1983

Water Degasification and Distillation Apparatus

Issued December 13, 1983; describes a water-degasification and distillation apparatus.

US4612090
1986

Water Degasification and Distillation Apparatus

Issued September 16, 1986; filed April 29, 1983.

US5203970
1993

Method for Water Degasification and Distillation

Issued April 20, 1993; part of the documented continuation of the device lineage.

WO2001068214
2001

Method and Apparatus for Water Degasification and Distillation

PCT publication with pamphlet, priority document, examination report, and status report preserved from WIPO.

US6409888
2002

Method and Apparatus for Water Degasification and Distillation

Issued June 25, 2002; U.S. member of the later international family.

US20150246825
2015

Method and Apparatus for Treating Water

U.S. pre-grant publication. The archive preserves the publication and OCR text.

US20180079657
2018

Method and Apparatus for Treating Water

U.S. pre-grant publication in the later treating-water series.

US20200095136
2020

Method and Apparatus for Treating Water

U.S. pre-grant publication preserved with OCR text for review.

International family

The archive preserves the WIPO pamphlet, priority document, International Preliminary Examination Report, and status report for WO2001068214, plus the manually retrieved CIPO document set for CA2403082. Australian and European family records were identified, but the 2026 automated capture did not obtain complete official national-office files.

What remains unresolved

How later application claims map precisely onto commercial machines.
Whether cited performance claims were independently replicated under controlled conditions.
The complete legal status and prosecution history of every international family member.