ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,667, issued on July 21, was assigned to RECENSMEDICAL INC. (Ulsan, South Korea).

"Cooling apparatus and cooling method" was invented by Gun-Ho Kim (Ulsan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling apparatus and a cooling method are proposed. The cooling device may spray a coolant received from a coolant reservoir toward a target region to cool the target region. The cooling device may include a spraying unit from which the coolant is sprayed, a valve configured to regulate a flow of the coolant, and a control unit configured to control opening and closing of the valve. When cooling starts. the control unit may control a fi...