US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Aug. 25 for "Sustaining cooling tower performance through air side inlet condition control" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,664, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Sustaining cooling tower performance through air side inlet condition control" was invented by Abdullah M. Al-Otaibi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Ahmad A. Alsaraihi (Jubail, Saudi Arabia) and Mustafa K. Hashim (Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling system includes a cooling tower providing a housing that has a bottom, a top opposite the bottom, and a sidewall extending between the top and the bottom, an air intake vent provided on the sidewall and through which external air can enter an interior of the cooling tower, a plur...