ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,661, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to AGGREKO LLC (New Iberia, La.).
"Cooling tower" was invented by Billy Wayne Childers Jr. (Chickasha, Okla.) and Atul Amar Kumar Swamy (Norman, Okla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling tower for evaporative cooling of water is contained within an ISO-compliant shipping container frame, permitting stacking of cooling towers for transport and for certain industrial applications. A volume of fill media is contained within the frame. Spaced apart troughs underlie the fill media, running substantially the length of the fill media and connecting to a basin. Baffles are connected to one upper ed...