ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,296, issued on June 10, was assigned to FUSE LLC (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Temperature regulating apparatus and methods of using same" was invented by Matthew S. Brown (Falkner, Miss.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature regulating apparatus can comprise a housing, an intake fan, an outlet fan, and one or more canisters containing a pressurized cooling gas, such as carbon dioxide, freon, nitrogen, difluoroethane, trifluoroethane, or tetrafluoroethane, positioned within the housing. The inlet fan draws warm air from outside of the housing into the housing through vent openings formed in the housing. Cooling gas is released from the c...