US Patent Issued to Baltimore Aircoil on June 16 for "Air contactor" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,132, issued on June 16, was assigned to Baltimore Aircoil Co. Inc. (Jessup, Md.).

"Air contactor" was invented by Yohann Lilian Rousselet (Baltimore), Preston Blay (Silver Spring, Md.), Philip Hollander (Silver Spring, Md.) and Ellie M. Litwack (Columbia, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, an air contactor comprising an air inlet, an air outlet, a fan assembly to produce an airflow, a heat exchanger operable to transfer heat between a process fluid and the airflow, and an air pollutant capture system configured to selectively remove an air pollutant from the airflow. A controller has a fluid cooling and air pollutant c...