ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,199, issued on March 25, was assigned to FLOWTECH SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Bacheng Town, China).

"Operation control system and method for a chiller cooling tower" was invented by Wenyu You (Jiangsu, China) and Feng Xue (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an operation control system and an operation control method for a chiller cooling tower. The operation control system includes a water chilling unit, a first temperature sensor, a second temperature sensor, a programmable logic controller, and an artificial intelligence controller."

The patent was filed on Dec. 29, 2021, under Application No. 18/008,624.

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