ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,185, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to B/E AEROSPACE INC. (Winston Salem, N.C.).
"Galley cooler with latent heat recovery" was invented by Abbas A. Alahyari (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Yasmin Khakpour (South Windsor, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A galley cooler is disclosed herein. The galley cooler includes a cooling system and a delivery system. The cooling system includes a hot side and a cold side. The hot side includes a hot side inlet. The cold side is configured to, in response to cooling ambient air entering the cooling system on the hot side via the hot-side inlet, condense moist air into liquid water on the cold sid...