ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,054, issued on July 14, was assigned to Ecolab USA Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).
"Method of enhancing performance of a porous evaporative media" was invented by Zhangzhang Yin (Monroeville, Pa.), Shawn Michael Dalke (Sugar Grove, Ill.), Michael J. Murcia (Sycamore, Ill.), Bingzhi Chen (Naperville, Ill.), Robert M. Lowe (Chicago), Carter M. Silvernail (St. Paul, Minn.), Ashish Dhawan (St. Paul, Minn.) and Thomas R. Mohs (St. Paul, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method of improving an evaporative performance of a porous evaporative media in a cooling system that utilizes water evaporation for heat transfer, the method comprising co...